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Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German revolutionary
Bernstein, Eduard
Eduard Bernstein
German political theorist
Karl Liebknecht
Karl Liebknecht
German socialist
Wilhelm Liebknecht
Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Karl Kautsky
Karl Kautsky
German Marxist and politician
Pavel Borisovich Akselrod.
Pavel Borisovich Akselrod
Russian political scientist
Otto Bauer
Austrian political leader
Mehring, Franz
Franz Mehring
German historian and journalist