He was a member of the Social-Revolutionary Party "Proletariat", the first workers' party in tsarist Russia, then he became the founder and one of the leaders of the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL). He took part in the 1905 Revolution and was imprisoned by the tsarist authorities. After World War I, he was one of the co-founders and leaders of the Communist Party of Poland. On her behalf, in 1926, he became a member of the Sejm (lower chamber of the Polish parliament). In 1930, at the 5th Congress of the CPP, he was removed from major party positions as a result of an inter-factional struggle. He emigrated to the USSR, where during the Great Purge he was arrested and executed as a "spy-terrorist", like most of the leaders of the CPP.

As one of the leaders of the SDKPiL, he was a close comrade of Rosa Luxemburg. This article, published in 1922 in the German journal "Kommunistische Internationale"¹, was writen by Warski in response to Paul Levi's "revelations". Levi is the author of a legend that contrasted the "democrat" Luxembourg with the "authoritarian" Bolsheviks. Warski refutes this legend definitively. Considering that even today (crypto-)liberal ventriloquists use the corpse of Luxemburg as an dummy, Warski's work remains a priceless setting straight of the record of a great revolutionary.

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