The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume IV: Political Writings 2, On Revolution 1906-1909
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The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume IV: Political Writings 2, On Revolution 1906-1909
By (Author) Rosa Luxemburg
Edited by Peter Hudis
Edited by Sandra Rein
Translated by Jacob Blumenfeld
Translated by Nicholas Gray
Translated by Henry Holland
Translated by Zachary King
Translated by Manuela Klke
Translated by Joseph Muller
Verso Books
Verso Books
3rd January 2024
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Political science and theory
Left-of-centre democratic ideologies
Far-left political ideologies and movements
303.64
Physical Properties
Paperback
576
Width 153mm, Height 234mm, Spine 36mm
620g
Description
This 600-page volume of Luxemburg's Complete Works contains her writings On Revolution from 1906 to 1909 - covering the 1905-06 Russian Revolution, an epoch-making event, and its aftermath. Over 80 per cent of writings on this volume have never before appeared in English. The volume contains numerous writings never before available in English, such as her pathbreaking essay "Lessons of the Three Dumas," which presents a unique perspective on the transition to socialism, her "Notes on the English Revolution" of the 1640s, and numerous writings on of the role of the mass strike in fomenting revolutionary transformation. All of the material in the volume consists of new translations, from German, Polish, and Russian originals.
Reviews
One of the most emotionally intelligent socialists in modern history, a radical of luminous dimensions whose intellect is informed by sensibility, and whose largeness of spirit places her in the company of the truly impressive.
Vivian Gornick, Nation
Rosa goes on being our source of fresh water in thirsty times.
Eduardo Galeano
Intrepid, incorruptible, passionate and gentle. Imagine as you read between the lines of what she wrote, the expression of her eyes. She loved workers and birds. She danced with a limp. Everything about her fascinates and rings true. One of the immortals.
John Berger
One cannot read the writings of Rosa Luxemburg, even at this distance, without an acute yet mournful awareness of what Perry Anderson once termed the history of possibility.
Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic
Author Bio
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was a Polish-born Jewish revolutionary and one of the greatest theoretical minds of the European socialist movement. An activist in Germany and Poland, the author of numerous classic works, she participated in the founding of the German Communist Party and the Spartacist insurrection in Berlin in 1919. She was assassinated in January of that year and has become a hero of socialist, communist and feminist movements around the world.
