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- Rosa Luxemburg: Sonja, you are bitter about my long enprisonment and ask: "How is it that some people may decide the fate of others?". My dear, all history is based on people deciding the fate of others and that is deeply rooted in the conditions of our material existence. The only way to change this is by painful upheaval. You ask: "What is it all for?" "What for" conveys nothing about the totality of life and its many forms. Why do blue tits exist? I really have no idea but I'm glad they do exist and it gives me great confort when suddenly, over the prison wall, I hear them call in the distance. Sonitschka, be cheerful and don't fret. Things will turn out well, believe me. Greetings to Karl. Many kisses, Rosa.