Rosa Luxemburg : a revolutionary Marxist at the limits of Marxism
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Rosa Luxemburg : a revolutionary Marxist at the limits of Marxism
（Marx, Engels, and Marxisms / Terrell Carver and Marcello Musto, series editors）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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 Marx-But 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 Question-1908-09
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 out-but 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
Socialism as the Order of the Day
Programmatic Renewal and the Founding of the KPD
The January Uprising in Berlin and Government Terror
Bibliography
Chapter 12. Spat at, Adored, but Also Indispensable?
Bibliography
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