The letters of Rosa Luxemburg
The most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English.
The complete works of Rosa Luxemburg, volume 1: economic writings 1
This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg’s most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
Rosa Luxemburg: a true revolutionary
An article by Staughton Lynd about the socialist revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg.
The 1918 treaty of Brest-Litovsk: curbing the revolution - Guy Sabatier
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Jan 24 2013 00:19
A detailed historical account and political analysis of the treaty that marked the official conclusion of the First World War on the Eastern Front, in which the author stridently advocates the position of the “left communists” who opposed the treaty and instead called for international revolutionary war, with extensive discussion of the connection between the opposing views on this question in the Bolshevik Party and crucial domestic controversies concerning revolutionary social organization and economic policy.
Rosa Luxemburg's legacy
A podcast on Rosa Luxemburg's legacy from Pacifica Radio's "Against the Grain" with Peter Hudis, editor of the forthcoming fourteen-volume Collected Works of Rosa Luxemburg.
The apotheosis of money: the structural limits of capital valorization, casino capitalism and the global financial crisis - Robert Kurz
In this 1995 essay, Robert Kurz examines “fictitious capital”, “unproductive labor”, the “tertiary sector”, “State debt”, “speculative bubbles”, “derivatives”, and “globalization” in the context of the wave of bankruptcies, crashes and bailouts of the 80s and 90s; discusses Rosa Luxemburg’s crisis theory, Keynesianism, Aglietta’s “regulation theory”, and the “neo-liberal” offensive; and predicts a “devaluation shock” that will invalidate the bloated property claims of fictitious capital in a “monetary atomic explosion” heralding “the end of the history of the mode of production based on money”.
The accumulation of capital - Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg's major work, in full, in pdf format.
Critical introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's economic works - Wolf Motylev
Translated preface to the Russian fifth edition of Rosa Luxemburg's works The Accumulation of Capital and her Anti-Critique.
Translator's introduction to the 1948 Chilean edition of Anton Pannekoek's Lenin as Philosopher - Lain Diez
A brief introduction to Pannekoek’s book on Lenin that defines the council communist tendency of Marxism as the long awaited bridge between Marxism and anarchism that promises to heal the rift of the Bakunin-Marx split in the First International. Written in the form of short “theses”, the text begins with a critical assessment of Trotsky’s opposition to Stalinism, supports Luxemburg’s and Mattick’s anti-Leninist critiques with regard to spontaneity and ends by agreeing with Karl Korsch’s negative identification of Leninism with social democracy as both being opposed to emancipatory socialism.
After Zimmerwald - Radical Chains
Submitted by blebber on Nov 2 2011 14:47
The modern left, bolshevism included, are all children of Zimmerwald. It was at the Zimmerwald conference in 1915 that the revolutionary left thrashed out the issues of its relation to the centrist and reformist wings of the movement and its orientation towards national self-determination... Lenin may have been well in advance of anyone in his call for revolutionary defeatism, but... Lenin's defence of the right of nations to self-determination was no more than a reiteration of orthodoxy and... in their assessment of the real consequences of support for nationalism the European left proved to be more perspicacious than Lenin.
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