The Living Flame: The Revolutionary Passion of Rosa Luxemburg

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This collection will be of interest to all who want to dive deeper into one of the 20th centuries most brilliant women revolutionaries, Rosa Luxemburg. Publication will coincide with the 100-year anniversary of her death in 1919. Renewed attention to the role of radical women in the historical socialist movement has been shown through increased interest in the work of Clara Zetkin and Alexandra Kollontai, some of who's books were in the top sales during our Women's Liberation Month sale in March 2018.

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"These diverse, wide-ranging essays make an indispensable contribution to our understanding of Rosa Luxemburg, who emerges as formidable theorist, principled activist, and above all, a fully realized human being. Always attentive to the complex interplay between historical and individual dynamics, The Living Flame affirms Luxemburgs lasting contribution and underscores the relevance of her legacy for our own, very different, age. Paul Le Blanc illuminates Luxemburgs vision: unrelenting revolutionary activity coupled with boundless humanitythat alone is the real life-giving force of socialism.Helen Scott, author, The Storm of History: Shakespeares Tempest and Capitalism "Paul Le Blancs essays are a profound and multidimensional investigation of a giant thinker and revolutionary. These works show meticulous historical and theoretical attentiveness and at the same time are hugely timely; a significant contribution to Rosa Luxemburg studies and Marxist theory and history." Dana Mills, author, Rosa Luxemburg: Critical Lives "These essays convey what many readers have come to expect from Paul Le Blanc: uncommonly nuanced, probing, and also deeply principled explorations. His mode of engagement nicely compliments that of Rosa Luxemburg and shows us her thoughts as a living and breathing work in progress, not merely echoes from an increasingly distant past. In addition, Le Blanc models how Marxists and Leftists in general might want to relate to one another when we debate complex issues and at times disagree. A meaningful exchange of viewpoints requires not only a comradely tone but also willingness to, first of all, truly understand someone else's perspective before countering it."Axel Fair-Schulz, associate professor at SUNY Potsdam

Author Bio

Paul Le Blanc is a professor at La Roche College and the author of many books including October Song, Left Americana and From Marx to Gramsci and is the editor of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.