Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht, born on this day in 1871, was a German socialist politician and theorist. Originally associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Liebknecht later became a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of both the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Liebknecht is also known for his outspoken opposition to World War I.

The son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the SPD, Karl Liebknecht trained to be a lawyer and defended many Social Democrats in political trials. He was also a leading figure in the socialist youth movement and thus became a leading figure in the struggle against militarism.

As a deputy in the Reichstag he was one of the first SPD representatives to break party discipline and vote against war credits in December 1914. He became a figurehead for the struggle against the war. His opposition was so successful that his parliamentary immunity was removed and he was improsoned.

Freed by the November revolution he immediately threw himself into the struggle and became with Rosa Luxemburg one of the founders of the new Communist Party (KPD)

In January 1919, the Spartacus League played a leading role in the Spartacist Uprising, a general strike and armed rebellion in Berlin. The uprising was crushed by the SPD government and the Freikorps (paramilitary units composed of World War I veterans). For their role in the uprising, Liebknecht and Luxemburg were both kidnapped, tortured, and murdered on January 15th, 1919.

Their contributions to European socialism are commemorated annually in Germany during the second weekend of January, an event known as the Liebknecht-Luxemburg Demonstration, or "LL-Demo" for short.

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  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    5 months ago

    In addition, isn't a necromancer just a cleric who didn't git gud? A cleric can make a dead person come all the way back, I'm not really sure how necromancy works biologically because it seems to keep them in the state of decay they were necro'd in, so if someone just died, it seems like they should be immortal and otherwise pretty normal save maybe an axe wound or whatever caused the death. Also apparently possession is also a thing nedeomancers do, which strikes me as a whole different field of study.

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      A necromancer is a type of magic user who specializes in those spells which are not socially normative. They are a threat to the forces of so-called Good because they are a threat to the clerics' monopoly on the use of resurrection magic.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        5 months ago

        Seems like they could get the soul all the way back if they worked on it.

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            5 months ago

            Cause maybe you don't want servants and just wanna revive the dead cause it's a nice.thing to do. People were hyped.whem Jesus did it.

              • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                5 months ago

                Have you heard of surgery? Stitch up a dude and transfuse some blood and in some cases you could pop a soul back