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Rosa Luxemburg

A Revolutionary Marxist at the Limits of Marxism

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Authors:
  1. Michael Brie

    1. Institut für Gesellschaftsanalyse, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Jörn Schütrumpf

    1. Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Show Us the Miracle! Where Is Your Miracle?

    • Michael Brie, Jörn Schütrumpf
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Blighted Authority of Engels and Kautsky

    • Michael Brie, Jörn Schütrumpf
    Pages 25-35

  4. The ‘Fully Fledged Marxist’ and the Polish Question

    • Michael Brie, Jörn Schütrumpf
    Pages 37-59

  5. Revolutionary Realpolitik

    • Michael Brie, Jörn Schütrumpf
    Pages 61-80

  6. The Millerand Case—Socialist Participation in Government as a Test Case of Theory and Strategy

    • Michael Brie, Jörn Schütrumpf
    Pages 81-104

  7. The Electric Age of Unexpected Developments: The 1905 Russian Revolution

    • Michael Brie, Jörn Schütrumpf
    Pages 105-125

  8. On the Defensive

    • Michael Brie, Jörn Schütrumpf
    Pages 127-143

  9. The Imperialist Age and the Accumulation of Capital

    • Michael Brie, Jörn Schütrumpf
    Pages 145-164

  10. Rosa Luxemburg’s Symphony on the Russian Revolution

    • Michael Brie, Jörn Schütrumpf
    Pages 165-176

  11. Beyond Social Democrats and Bolsheviks

    • Michael Brie, Jörn Schütrumpf
    Pages 177-202

  12. The November Revolution: A New Beginning Violently Interrupted

    • Michael Brie, Jörn Schütrumpf
    Pages 203-225

  13. Spat at, Adored, but Also Indispensable?

    • Michael Brie, Jörn Schütrumpf
    Pages 227-244

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 245-253
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About this book

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.



Reviews

‘This exceptional book is the product of latest research on Luxemburg, based on the full corpus of her writings – including many that have only recently come to light. It explores such critical issues as the extent to which her defense of political democracy is compatible with a commitment to a new society based on socialized means of production’.

—Peter Hudis, General Editor, The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Gesellschaftsanalyse, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany

    Michael Brie

  • Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany

    Jörn Schütrumpf

About the authors

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).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rosa Luxemburg

  • Book Subtitle: A Revolutionary Marxist at the Limits of Marxism

  • Authors: Michael Brie, Jörn Schütrumpf

  • Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67486-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67485-4Published: 07 March 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67488-5Published: 08 March 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67486-1Published: 06 March 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2524-7123

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 253

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Theory, Political History, Political Philosophy

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