Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism

Selected Writings

Paul Le Blanc, Helen Scott

Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was one of the most brilliant and passionate minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement. An outstanding social and economic theorist of the twentieth century, and a dedicated political activist, she proved willing to go to prison and even give her life for her beliefs.

Providing an extensive overview of her writings, this volume contains a number of items never before anthologized. Her work was broad in scope tackling capitalism and socialism; globalization and imperialism; history; war and peace; social struggles, trade unions, political parties; class, gender, race; the interconnection of humanity with the natural environment. The editors provide an extensive and informative introduction outlining and evaluating her life and thought.
 

Contents

Introduction by Helen C. Scott and Paul Le Blanc
Sources, Further Reading, Acknowledgements
1. The French Revolution
2. Reform or Revolution
3. Eight Hour Day – How to Win Reforms
4. Stagnation and Progress of Marxism
5. Organizational Questions of Russian Social Democracy
6. Socialism and the Churches
7. The Mass Strike, the Political Party, and the Trade Unions
8. Blanquism and Social Democracy
9. The National Question
10. Theory and Practice,
11. Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle
12. Lassalle’s Legacy
13. The Accumulation of Capital –An Anti-Critique
14. The Crisis of German Social Democracy (Junius Pamphlet)
15. Two Prison Letters to Sonya Liebknecht
16. The Russian Revolution
17. Founding Convention of the German Communist Party
18. Order Prevails in Berlin

 

About the Authors

Paul Le Blanc is Professor of History at La Roche College, Pittsburgh. He is the author of Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience (2006), A Short History of the US Working Class (1999) and editor of Revolution, Democracy, Socialism (2008).

Helen C. Scott is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization (2006) and the editor of The Essential Rosa Luxemburg (2007)