Several years ago in Cameroon, a country in West Africa, a Western Black Rhinoceros was killed. It was the last of its kind on Earth.

Hence, the Western Black Rhinoceros, the largest subspecies of rhinoceros which had lived for millions of years and was the second largest land mammal on Earth, no longer exists.

But while you have probably heard of the Western Black Rhinoceros, and may even have known of its extinction, did you know that on the same day that it became extinct, another 200 species of life on Earth also became extinct?

This is because the sixth mass extinction event in Earth’s history is now accelerating at an unprecedented rate with 200 species of plants, birds, animals, fish, amphibians, insects and reptiles being driven to extinction on a daily basis. And the odds are high that you have never even heard of any of them. For example, have you heard of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle, recently declared extinct? See ‘Christmas Island Pipistrelle declared extinct by IUCN’.

Introduction

When I began this essay I thought I aimed at a rather modest target, but the “story grew in the telling” and reached out further and further to interweave more and more threads, and therefore required much more time and thought than originally foreseen. Yet I believe the effort to have been worthwhile, opening a bit of new territory for socialism. It sets out from one of Rosa Luxemburg’s most enduring postulates and conjugates it with the topic of civil disobedience which, (as far as the author knows, has never been associated this giant of socialist thought.

One of the protagonists of the civil disobedience movement was Rosa Parks, the other “rose” to whom this monograph is dedicated to and honored in the title, for being as a quintessential representative of civil disobedience as understood and practiced by Gandhi and King.

A further disobedient rose worthy of recognition is Sandra Harris who reviewed this essay and recommended addressing “class morality.”

Zionism is a colonial movement invented in the 19th century to transform a
multi-religious Palestine to the apartheid “Jewish state of Israel”. It was
to be “a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization against
barbarism” (Herzl in the Jews’ State). This colonial racist idea remained
unchanged since founding of the “Jewish Colonization Association” in 1891
and the World Zionist Congress in 1897. Like all colonial movements, it
focuses on the dual task of destroying native life and creating new
exclusivist racist regimes and it gets support from empires and from
complicity.

Britain put the Al-Saud family in charge of the area of Hijaz (which was to
become the kleptocracy of “Saudi Arabia”). Abdul Aziz Al-Saud responded in
1915 to British requests by writing in his own hand: “I the Sultan Abdel
Aziz Bin Abdel Alrahman Al-Faysal Al-Saud decide and acknowledge a thousand
times to Sir Percy Cox the representative of Great Britain that I have no
objection to give Palestine to the poor Jews or to others as seen [fit] by