Luxemburgs essays

Thus proletarian policy is locked in a dilemma when trying to decide on which side it ought to intervene, which side represents progress and democracy in this war. In these circumstances, and from the perspective of international politics as a whole, victory or defeat, in political as well as economic terms, comes down to a hopeless choice between two kinds of beatings for the European working classes. Therefore, it is nothing but fatal madness when the French socialists imagine that the military defeat of Germany will strike a blow at the head of militarism and imperialism and thereby pave the way for peaceful democracy in the world. Imperialism and its servant, militarism, will calculate their profits from every victory and every defeat in this war – except in one case: if the international proletariat intervenes in a revolutionary way and puts an end to such calculations.

This passage speaks of the day to day struggles of the working class people. It also infers that none of the political parties would revolutionize their (working class / proletariat's) current position.  Whether they vote for socialists or democrats would not ease the difficulty with which they face. They would continually struggle against the ruling class who had dominant political power. If the French socialist were to attempt to defeat the Germans they would end up destroying themselves.

This passage relates to politics today in that you still have these barriers where politics is dominated by the rich or bourgeois and the working class continually struggles for liberation. Social class still play a role today in politics, the working class are the ones who labors to produce economic value for the rich who earns the means of production. Even if the working class chooses to vote for one party over another nothing really changes, political parties only betray them. The working class in some situations today may form strikes against the political forces or the rich to whom they are employed usually to little or no avail. Even though not all politicians are the same the few who tries to make a difference usually are incapable of making any significant changes for the betterment of or bring about change for the working class.