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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 ofthe 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.
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.
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was one of the most brilliant and
passionate minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement. An
outstanding social and economic theorist of the twentieth century,
and a dedicated political activist, she proved willing to go to
prison and even give her life for her beliefs. Providing an
extensive overview of her writings, this volume contains a number
of items never before anthologized. Her work was broad in scope
tackling capitalism and socialism; globalization and imperialism;
history; war and peace; social struggles, trade unions, political
parties; class, gender, race; the interconnection of humanity with
the natural environment. The editors provide an extensive and
informative introduction outlining and evaluating her life and
thought. This is the best introduction to the range of Rosa
Luxemburg's thought.
This 1899 polemic by the famous Red Rosa Luxemburg explains why
capitalism can never overcome its internal contradictions. An
effective refutation of revisionist interpretations of Marxist
doctrine, it defines the position of scientific socialism on the
issues of social reforms, the state, democracy, and the character
of the proletarian revolution.
Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died
for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her
involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally
murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered
days later from a canal. Six years earlier she had published what
was undoubtedly her finest achievement, The Accumulation of Capital
- a book which remains one of the masterpieces of socialist
literature. Taking Marx as her starting point, she offers an
independent and fiercely critical explanation of the economic and
political consequences of capitalism in the context of the
turbulent times in which she lived, reinterpreting events in the
United States, Europe, China, Russia and the British Empire. Many
today believe there is no alternative to global capitalism. This
book is a timely and forceful statement of an opposing view.
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.
This volume is the first to contain all of Luxemburg's eloquent
writings on the 1917 Russian and 1918-19 German Revolutions. It
also contains articles, essays and manuscripts on the European
socialist movement prior to World War I and her effort to rebuild
the socialist movement on revolutionary foundations in its
aftermath. Much of this material appears in English for the first
time. Her incisive contributions on revolutionary strategy, the
German and Russian Revolutions, and the transition to socialism
reveal a profound commitment to radical democracy, which becomes
evident as she elaborates on her lived experience with razor-sharp
conceptualizations of the mass strike. Her democratic commitment is
also highlighted in her deepening conflict with the bureaucratic
conservatism afflicting the German Social Democratic Party.She is
horrified yet at the same time grimly analytical while surveying
the unfolding violence and brutality of the First World War.Deeply
inspired by Russia's 1917 upsurge, she is nonetheless compelled to
analyze and criticize fatal limitations of the Russian
Revolution.Swept up in the revolutionary chaos sweeping through
Germany in 1918-1919 which results in her own martyrdom, she gives
voice to revolution's final testament: "I was, I am, I shall be."
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) is widely regarded as one of the most
creative writers of modern socialism and the foremost female
theoretician of European radicalism. Her wide-ranging and incisive
works, which include studies on capitalism's inherent drive for
global expansion, the relation between spontaneity and
organization, and the inseparability of democracy and socialism,
have made her a pole of attraction for theorists and activists
around the world. Her fiercely independent intellect and
uncompromising defense of human liberty speaks more powerfully to
our era than to any other. This volume contains a new English
translation of Luxemburg's most important book, The Accumulation of
Capital (1913) as well as her response to its critics. Taken
together, they constitute one of the most important Marxist studies
of the globalization of capital. Thank you to David Gaharia for
helping to support the translation of this book.
Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earlier she had published what was undoubtedly her finest achievement, The Accumulation of Capital - a book which remains one of the masterpieces of socialist literature. Taking Marx as her starting point, she offers an independent and fiercely critical explanation of the economic and political consequences of capitalism in the context of the turbulent times in which she lived, reinterpreting events in the United States, Europe, China, Russia and the British Empire. Many today believe there is no alternative to global capitalism. This book is a timely and forceful statement of an opposing view. eBook available with sample pages: 0203361865
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. Many of these letters appear for the first time in
English translation; all help 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.
Davor Konjikusic offers an in-depth presentation and
contextualization of the photographs created by Yugoslav partisans
between 1941 and 1945. The book goes beyond an aesthetic depiction
of the photographs; it also deals with the history of their use and
function within one of the biggest anti-fascist movements in Europe
during the Second World War. The photographs are used to trace the
development of a movement that-while seemingly doomed to certain
failure-nevertheless survived the most destructive war in human
history. This book provides new answers to the question of
photography's role as a medium and its significance and use in
social movements.
The second volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled
Economic Writings 2, contains a new English translation of
Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to the
Economic Theory of Imperialism, one of the most important works
ever composed on capitalism's incessant drive for self-expansion
and the integral connection between capitalism and imperialism.
This new translation is the first to present the full work as
composed by the author. It also contains her book-length response
to her critics,The Accumulation of Capital, Or, What the Epigones
Have Made Out of Marx's Theory-An Anti-Critique. Taken together,
these two works represent one of the most important Marxist studies
of the globalization of capital. Also included is an essay on the
second and third volumes of Marx's Capital, which had originally
appeared as an unattributed chapter in Franz Mehring's book Karl
Marx. Thank you to David Gaharia for helping to support the
translation of this book.
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