“Time moves and yet we do not notice it.”
Dante Alighieri book Purgatorio
Canto IV, line 9 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
As is often the case, this quote appears to be something Luxemburg could have said or written, but searches for a source have been unsuccessful. While Luxemburg often used metaphors of breaking or shattering chains, this, apparently, is not one of them. See: https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/reference-desk-unanswered-questions/
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Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolut… 1871–1919
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