Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by LÖWY Michael
At many points throughout its long history, the labor movement has confronted a choice: either support nationalism, “national defense,” and war, or fight for internationalism: “Proletarians of all countries unite!” This fateful choice has determined the course of history at many decisive moments. (...)
“A real re-foundation of communism in the twenty-first century will not be able to do without the revolutionary, Marxist, democratic, socialist and libertarian message of Rosa Luxemburg.”
If we had to choose the distinctive feature of Rosa Luxemburg’s life and thought, it is perhaps revolutionary (...)
, by SOUTO Vanda
“Who is feminist and is not leftist, lacks strategy. Whoever is left and is not a feminist lacks depth”. Rosa Luxemburg
Our Rosa Luxemburg was born on March 5, 1871, in Zamoṡc, a small Polish town then occupied by Russia, into an emancipated and cultured Jewish family. From childhood, Rosa (...)
, par MILLS Dana
This article is excerpted from ‘Rosa Luxemburg’ by Dana Mills (Reaktion Books, 2020) .
Rosa Luxemburg’s socialism was shaped by a deep internationalism, much of which she imbibed from her Jewish upbringing in what was then known as ’Russian Poland.’
Rozalia (Rosalie, Rosa) Lukensburg (Luxemburg) (...)
, by SCHWERDTNER Ines
On the 100th anniversary of her murder, Rosa Luxemburg’s incredible life provides us with a model – not necessarily of what to do, but of how to do it.
Hardly any figure in the history of socialism represents such an impressive combination of sharp-minded theoretician and rhetorically explosive (...)
, by HIRSCH Michael
This presentation was given at the June 30, 2018, DSA Lower Manhattan Branch meeting/picnic.
When I was in college and the Vietnam War was raging, I was president of the campus’s SDS chapter . I remember lunching with the head of our local Young Democrats. He was a decent enough liberal who (...)
, by LÖWY Michael
Rosa Luxemburg’s defense of socialist democracy and her critique of the Bolsheviks in her pamphlet The Russian Revolution (1918) are well known. Less well known and often forgotten is her critique of bourgeois democracy, its limits, its contradictions, and its narrow and partial character. We (...)
, by HOLMSTROM Nancy
DOES ROSA LUXEMBURG leave feminists a theoretical and political legacy? That is, does she give us any theoretical guidance as to how to understand women’s oppression? If so, what is it?
Certainly Rosa Luxemburg is a model for feminists of all times in her passionate commitment both to (...)
, by SCHMIDT Ingo
Right-wing militias killed Rosa Luxemburg and dumped her dead body into the Landwehr Canal after the Spartacus uprising in Berlin. Social democrats and communists finished off her intellectual and political legacy by putting her on their respective pedestals. She became a principal witness (...)
, by LÖWY Michael
In his presentation of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach (1845), which he published posthumously in 1888, Engels described them as “the first document in which is deposited the brilliant germ of the new world outlook”. Indeed, in this little text Marx surpasses dialectically – the celebrated Aufhebung: (...)
, by LE BLANC Paul
PRESENTATION ON ROSA LUXEMBURG, IN CELEBRATION OF THE NEW VOLUME “THE LETTERS OF ROSA LUXEMBURG” – AT BOOK LAUNCH ORGANIZED BY VERSO PRESS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, MARCH 14, 2011
Rosa Luxemburg was born in 1871 in a Poland divided under German and Russian domination, and she was involved in (...)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Contribution presented at the Conference on Rosa Luxemburg, War and Imperialism held on May 20-22 at the Workers’ Library and Museum in the Newton Precinct of Johannesburg, South Africa. See: Rosa Luxemburg in South Africa
Rosa Luxemburg sought to keep her balance – as any serious revolutionary (...)
, by MARIK Soma
“ In 1903, when the RSDLP was facing dissension on the question relating to membership in the Party, Luxemburg stood on the side of the Mensheviks. She criticized the Leninist-Stalinist teaching about the Party of a new type, resulting from an opportunist theory of spontaneity; she vigorously (...)
, by LUXEMBURG Rosa
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Revelation, III 15:16
Comrades! You are all aware of the division that exists in the bosom of the intra-party (...)
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