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 - avision 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.

Michael Brie is Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin, Germany.

Jörn Schütrumpf is Head of the Research Group on Rosa Luxemburg of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin, Germany.

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Michael Brie is Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin, Germany. Recent books include Rediscovering Lenin: Dialectics of Revolution and Metaphysics of Domination (2019) and Karl Polanyi in Dialogue: A Socialist Thinker of Our Times (2017).

Jörn Schütrumpf is Head of the Research Group on Rosa Luxemburg of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin, Germany. Recent books include "Spartacus Uprising": The suppressed report of the committee of inquiry of the constituent Prussian state assembly on the January 1919 riots in Berlin (2018) and Paul Levi: Without a drop of minions blood. Spartacus (2018).

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This book analyses the development of Rosa Luxemburg (18711919) 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.

Michael Brie is Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin, Germany.

**Jörn Schütrumpf **is Head of the Research Group on Rosa Luxemburg of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin, Germany.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Show us the miracle! Where is your miracle?

To be oneself in the world
In Prison: With Herself and in the World
Speaking Truth Living Truth
Freedom is Always the Freedom of the Others
Bibliography

Chapter 2. The Blighted Authority of Engels and Kautsky

Returning to MarxBut to Which One?
The Maximal Programme and the Minimal Programme
Settling Accounts with 'Ersatz Marxism'
Failing to Understand One's Own Situation
Bibliography

Chapter 3. The 'Fully Fledged Marxist' and the Polish Question

The Founding of the Social Democracy Movement in Poland and its Two Factions
Luxemburg's Dissertation 'The Industrial Development of Poland'
A Return to the Polish Question1908-09
Bibliography

Chapter 4. Revolutionary Realpolitik

New Questions for Old Answers
The Strategy of the SPD from 1891
Bernstein's Total Revision of Marxism
The Hammer Blow of the Revolution
The Unity of Marxism and Socialism
Bibliography

Chapter 5. The Millerand Case Socialist Participation in Government as a Test Case of Theory and Strategy

The Bone of Contention
The Gap Between Marxist Theory and Socialist Practice
Rosa Luxemburg's Formulation of the Problem
Capitalism and The Class State
The Struggle for the Democratisation of Democracy and the Question of Violence
Conclusion
Bibliography

Chapter 6. The Electric Age of Unexpected Developments: The 1905 Russian Revolution

General Strike, Debate on Organisation and Political Leadership
Lessons from the 1905 Russian Revolution
Defeat as a Path to Victory
Freedom for the Enemy
Bibliography

Chapter 7. On the Defensive

The SPD at the Crossroads
Against 'Nothing-But-Parliamentarism and 'Nothing-But-Action'
The Great War and the Search for a Strategic Response
Bibliography

Chapter 8. The Imperialist Age and the Accumulation of Capital

'Help me figure something outbut quickly!'
Society As a Cultural Organism
Capitalism as an Impossible World Form
Politico-Economical Foundations of a New Strategy
Bibliography

Chapter 9. Rosa Luxemburg's Symphony on the Russian Revolution

The Prehistory
Luxemburg's Criticism of the Bolsheviks: Too Little Socialism, Too Little Democracy
The Anticipated Harmony of Opposites: Necessity and Freedom
Bibliography

Chapter 10. Beyond Social Democrats and Bolsheviks

Revolutionary Leadership and Self-Empowerment
Revolution in Russia An Alternative Strategy
How the Bolsheviks 'Won' the Revolution and Make Luxemburg's Nightmares Come True
Bibliography

Chapter 11. The November Revolution: A New Beginning Violently Interrupted