Global Context • 1919 • II
In January, the Communist leaders Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht are assassinated by Freikorps. Rosa Luxembourg, quoting Friedrich Engels in 1906: "Capitalist society faces a dilemma: either an advance of socialism, or a reversion to barbarism." The communist revolt is ultimately suppressed and the Weimar Republic is proclaimed.
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.