Author: Rosa LuxemburgPublisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1931859361
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A new, authoritative introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's most important works.
Reform or Revolution and Other Writings
Author: Rosa LuxemburgPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486147223
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A refutation of revisionist interpretations of Marxist doctrine, the title essay (1899) explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contradictions and defines the character of the proletarian revolution. 3 other essays.
Writings of Rosa Luxemburg
Author: Rosa LuxemburgPublisher:
ISBN: 9781934941911
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Selected writings from "Red Rosa" Luxemburg, one of the founders of the German Communist Party. Contains "The National Question," concerning the relationship of subject nations to socialism; "Reform or Revolution?," concerning the reformist program of parliamentary socialism; "The Socialist Crisis in France," concerning the entry of the Socialist Party into the French Government; and other essays.
The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Author: Rosa LuxemburgPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 158367103X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Among the major Marxist thinkers of the Russian Revolution era, Rosa Luxemburg stands out as one who speaks to our own time. Her legacy grows in relevance as the global character of the capitalist market becomes more apparent and the critique of bureaucratic power is more widely accepted within the movement for human liberation. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader is the definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings in English translation. Unlike previous publications of her work from the early 1970s, this volume includes substantial extracts from her major economic writings—above all, The Accumulation of Capital (1913)—and from her political writings, including Reform or Revolution (1898), the Junius Pamphlet (1916), and The Russian Revolution (1918). The Reader also includes a number of important texts that have never before been published in English translation, including substantial extracts from her Introduction to Political Economy (1916), and a recently-discovered piece on slavery. With a substantial introduction assessing Luxemburg's work in the light of recent research, The Rosa Luxemburg Reader is an indispensable resource for scholarship and an inspiration for a new generation of activists.
Rosa Luxemburg
Author: Michael BriePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303067486X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This book analyses the development of Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) as an outstanding Marxist thinker and socialist politician in the era of imperialism and revolution. Identifying the driving force behind Luxemburg’s development as the deep unity between her passionate, emphatic life and her political and theoretical work, the authors retrace the inner dynamics of its different stages while highlighting the deep rupture caused by the experience of the Russian Revolution. On the basis of new publications of her Polish works and other writings, Luxemburg's strategic approaches are located in an Eastern European context. The authors discuss Luxemburg’s unique analyses of the first experiments in socialist participation in government, of the first Russian revolution and of the forms of accumulation of capital to outline the foundations of her novel understanding of both democratic-socialist revolution and of a society that would point beyond social democracy as well as Bolshevism – a vision that will gain new significance in the twenty first century. This book looks upon the lasting heritage of Rosa Luxemburg as the groundbreaking thinker of the unity between democracy and socialism.
Author: J. P. NettlReform or Revolution
Author: Rosa LuxemburgPublisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
"Reform or Revolution" by Rosa Luxemburg is a seminal work in political theory that explores the fundamental question of whether social change is best achieved through gradual reforms or revolutionary upheavals. Luxemburg critically examines the limitations of reformist approaches within the capitalist system, arguing that true liberation requires a radical transformation of the existing socio-economic order. Through a nuanced analysis of class struggle, imperialism, and the dynamics of capitalism, Luxemburg presents a compelling argument that challenges prevailing notions of incremental change. This work remains a key text for those interested in understanding the complex interplay between reformist and revolutionary strategies in the pursuit of social justice.
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume IV
Author: Rosa LuxemburgPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788738101
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Part Four of a comprehensive collection of Rosa Luxemburg's writing This 600-page volume of Luxemburg’s Complete Works contains her writings On Revolution from 1906 to 1909—covering the 1905–06 Russian Revolution, an epoch-making event, and its aftermath. Over 80 per cent of writings on this volume have never before appeared in English. The volume contains numerous writings never before available in English, such as her pathbreaking essay “Lessons of the Three Dumas,” which presents a unique perspective on the transition to socialism, her “Notes on the English Revolution” of the 1640s, and numerous writings on of the role of the mass strike in fomenting revolutionary transformation. All of the material in the volume consists of new translations, from German, Polish, and Russian originals.
Red Rosa
Author: Kate EvansPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784781010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A graphic novel of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women. She overcame physical infirmity and the prejudice she faced as a Jew to become an active revolutionary whose philosophy enriched every corner of an incredibly productive and creative life—her many friendships, her sexual intimacies, and her love of science, nature and art. Always opposed to the First World War, when others on the German left were swept up on a tide of nationalism, she was imprisoned and murdered in 1919 fighting for a revolution she knew to be doomed. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
The Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg
Author: Rosa LuxemburgPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178168233X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 703
Book Description
The most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, this book includes 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements––Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht––who were among her closest friends, lovers and colleagues. Much of this correspondence appears for the first time in English translation; all of it helps to illuminate the inner life of this iconic revolutionary, who was at once an economic and social theorist, a political activist and a lyrical stylist. Her political concerns are revealed alongside her personal struggles within a socialist movement that was often hostile to independently minded women. This collection will provide readers with a newer and deeper appreciation of Luxemburg as a writer and historical figure.
