Otto Rühle  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search  Otto Rühle (23 October 1874 in Großschirma –
24 June 1943 in Mexico) was a German Marxist active in
opposition to both the First and Second World Wars, and a
founder along with Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz
Mehring and others of the group and magazine Internationale,
which posed a revolutionary internationalism against a world of
warring states, and also the Spartacist League (Spartakusbund in
German) in 1916.  The Spartacist League took an oppositional
stance to Leninism, and was attacked by the Bolsheviks for
inconsistency. Though Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were
murdered in 1919 for their involvement in the German Revolution,
Rühle lived on to participate in the left opposition of the
German labour movement, developing both an early communist
critique of Bolshevism, and an early opposition to fascism.
Rühle saw the Soviet Union as a form of state capitalism with
much in common with the state-centred capitalism of