Rosa Luxemburg

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.

Offers the first coherent analysis of Rosa Luxemburg's ideas and works, and their development and contradictions Takes into account Luxemburg's Polish writings on the first Russian revolution, which have been largely ignored until now Provides unique scholarly contributions to the field of Marxism on a number of issues, particularly on the national question and the 1905/6 Russian Revolution

Autorentext

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).

Klappentext

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 -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.

Inhalt

1. Show us the miracle! Where is your miracle?.- 2. The Blighted Authority of Engels and Kautsky.- 3. The 'Fully Fledged Marxist' and the Polish Question.- 4. Revolutionary Realpolitik.- 5. The Millerand Case Socialist Participation in Government as a Test Case of Theory and Strategy.- 6. The Electric Age of Unexpected Developments: The 1905 Russian Revolution.- 7. On the Defensive.- 8. The Imperialist Age and the Accumulation of Capital.- 9. Rosa Luxemburg's Symphony on the Russian Revolution.- 10. Beyond Social Democrats and Bolsheviks.- 11. The November Revolution: A New Beginning Violently Interrupted.- 12. Spat at, Adored, but Also Indispensable?.