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This volume is the first to contain all of Rosa Luxemburg's eloquent writings on the 1917 Russian and 1918-19 German revolutions. Also contained here are articles, essays, and manuscripts on the European socialist movement prior to World War I and on her efforts to rebuild the socialist movement on revolutionary foundations in its aftermath. Much of this material appears in English for the first time.
Luxemburg's contributions on revolutionary strategy and the transition to socialism reveal a profound commitment to radical democracy, which becomes evident as she elaborates on her lived experience with razor-sharp conceptualizations of the mass strike. Her democratic commitment is also highlighted in her deepening conflict with the bureaucratic conservatism afflicting the German Social Democratic Party. She is horrified yet, at the same time, grimly analytical while surveying the unfolding violence and brutality of World War I. Deeply inspired by Russia's 1917 upsurge, she is nonetheless compelled to analyze and criticize fatal limitations of the Russian Revolution. Swept up in the revolutionary chaos sweeping through Germany in 1918-19, which results in her own martyrdom, she gives voice on the eve of her assassination to the revolution's final testament: "I was, I am, I shall be."
Contents
Acknowledgments
Editorial Foreword
Introduction: Rosa Luxemburg and the Marxist Tradition
- by Helen C. Scott and Paul Le Blanc
Abbreviations
1910
What Course Now?
Party Congress of the SPD of Germany, September 18-24, 1910, in Magdeburg
The Political Mass Strike and the Trade Unions
The Political Mass Strike and the Unions
1911
Stolypin's Regime
The Reichstag Debates on the Mass Strike
1913
Lódz
Lódz's Huge Struggle
On the Political Mass Strike: A Police Report
On Lódz's Huge Struggle
On the Political Mass Strike [August 1913]
On the Political Mass Strike [August 12, 1913]
Lódz's Huge Struggle
Jena Party Congress
On the Political Mass Strike [September 19-20, 1913]
Mass Strike and the Taxation Question
1914
Can the Mass Strike be Considered a Means of Defense for the Proletariat in a Changed Political Constellation?
On the Prussian Suffrage Struggle
Once Again the Prussian Suffrage Struggle
The Establishment of a Mass Strike Fund
1915
What's with Liebknecht?
1916
Liebknecht
1917
The Russian Revolution
The Revolution in Russia
Russian Problems
The Old Mole
Two Easter Messages
Burning Issues of Our Time
1918-19
Historical Responsibility
Fragment Concerning War, the National Question and Revolution
Not Following the Script
Toward the Catastrophe
Handwritten Fragments on the History of the International, German Social Democracy, War, Revolution, and Post-War Perspectives
On the Russian Revolution
The Russian Tragedy
The Little Lafayettes
The Beginning
The Old Game
The National Assembly
A Daring Game
To the Proletarians of All Countries
The Acheron in Motion
Party Congress of the Independent Socialist Party
The "Immature" Mass
The Socialization of Society
Fourteen Dead-One Woman Murdered
On the Executive Council
What Does the Spartacus League Want?
To the Barricades
Extraordinary General Assembly of the German Independent Social Democratic Party of Greater Berlin-On December 15, 1918
National Assembly or Council Government?
Ebert's Mamelukes
A Pyrrhic Victory
The Election of the National Assembly
The Reich Conference of the Spartacus League
Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany
The First Party Congress
What Are Our Leaders Doing?
Neglected Obligations
The Leaders' Failure
Houses of Cards
Order Prevails in Berlin
Appendix: Once Again, On Organization and Disorganization
A Glossary of Personal Names
Index
