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German Scholars in Exiledeals with intellectuals who fled Nazi
Germany and found refuge in either the United States or in American
Services in Great Britain and post-WWII Germany. The volume focuses
on scholars who were outside the commonly known Max
Horkheimer-Hannah Arendt circles, who are less well-known but not
less important. Their experiences ranged from an outstanding career
at an Ivy-League university to a return to the German Democratic
Republic and a position as an economic advisor to East Berlin's
party leadership. None had actual political power, but many
asserted some degree of influence. Their intellecutal legacies can
still be seen in today's political culture.
This collection is the first of three volumes of the Complete Works
devoted to the central theme of Rosa Luxemburg's life and
work-revolution. Spanning the years 1897 to the end of 1905, they
contain speeches, articles, and essays on the strikes, protests,
and political debates that culminated in the 1905 Russian
Revolution-one of the most important social upheavals of modern
times. Luxemburg's near-daily articles and reports during 1905 on
the ongoing revolution (which comprises the bulk of this volume)
shed new light on such issues as the relation of spontaneity and
organization, the role of national minorities in social revolution,
and the inseparability of the struggle for socialism from
revolutionary democracy. We become witness to Luxemburg's effort to
respond to the impulses, challenges, and ideas arising from a
living revolutionary process, which in turn becomes the source of
much of her subsequent political theory-such as her writings on the
mass strike, her strident internationalism, and her insistence that
revolutionary struggle never take its eyes off of the need to
transform the human personality. Virtually all of these writings
appear in English for the first time (translated from both German
and Polish) and many have only recently been identified as having
been written by Luxemburg.
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