"Like a candle burning at both ends": Rosa Luxemburg and the critique of political economy - Riccardo Bellofiore
Paper showing how Luxemburg's economic theory and political perspective are much richer than the economic determinism and spontaneism they are usually associated with.
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Order Prevails in Berlin - Rosa Luxemburg
Written just after the defeat of German Revolution and hours before she and other leaders of the struggle would be arrested and killed by the Friekorps. It details the ebb and flow of recent class struggles and is the last known work of Rosa Luxemburg.
"Order prevails in Warsaw!" declared Minister Sebastiani to the Paris Chamber of Deputies in 1831, when after having stormed the suburb of Praga, Paskevich’s marauding troops invaded the Polish capital to begin their butchery of the rebels.
A Call to the Workers of the World - Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg's call to the international working class to support the 1918 German Revolution by taking up arms against their own ruling classes. Originally published in Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), November 25, 1918
PROLETARIANS! Men and Women of Labor! Comrades!
The Beginning - Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg's essay at the outbreak of the 1918 German Revolution.
The revolution has begun. What is called for now is not jubilation at was has been accomplished, not triumph over the beaten foe, but the strictest self-criticism and iron concentration of energy in order to continue the work we have begun. For our accomplishments are small and the foe has not been beaten.
The Nationalities Question in the Russian Revolution (Rosa Luxemburg, 1918)
Submitted by Red Marriott on Jul 11 2006 22:02
Luxemburg reveals the counter-revolutionary nature and consequences of the Bolsheviks' nationalist policy of the "right of self-determination of peoples".
Originally published as Chapter II of the pamphlet The Russian Revolution, which was constituted out of notes prepared by Rosa Luxemburg in prison in 1918, and published posthumously.
Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect - Paul Mattick
Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
It will soon be sixty years since the mercenaries of the German social-democratic leadership murdered Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Although they are mentioned in the same breath, as they both symbolized the radical element within the German political revolution of 1918, Rosa Luxemburg's name carries greater weight because her theoretical work was of greater seminal power.
Luxemburg versus Lenin - Paul Mattick
A comparison of Leninist vanguardism with Luxemburg's more subtle conceptions of working class organisation.
Organisational Questions of the Russian Revolution - Rosa Luxemburg
This text is a translation of two articles entitled 'Organisational Questions of Russian Social Democracy', written by Rosa Luxemburg in 1904.
The translation was made by the United Workers' Party in America and first published in Britain in Pamphlet form in 1935 by the Anti- Parliamentary Communist Federation.
It was later republished by the Independent Labour Party in the 1960s and went under the title of "Leninism or Marxism?"
Opportunism and the Art of the Possible
Rosa argues in 1898 against "opportunism" in her Party.
Rosa Luxemburg Internet Archive
Opportunism and the art of the possible
Written: September 1898
Source: Sachsische Arbeiter zeitung, September 30, 1898
Transcription/Markup: Dario Romeo and Brian Basgen
Leninism or Marxism - Rosa Luxemburg
Submitted by libcom on Apr 23 2005 22:54
Leninism or Marxism was published as an article in 1904 under the title "Organisational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy" in Iskra and Neue Zeit, and later reprinted in pamphlet form titled Marxism vs. Leninism in 1935 by the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation.
Rosa Luxemburg's critique of Lenin's concept of revolutionary organisation, show the disagreements within the Marxist movements in Europe in the years preceding 1917; her comparisons with Blanquism and chillingly accurate predictions of the consequences of such organisation in a successful revolution are incredibly important to an understanding of the differing interpretations of Marx at that tim
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