From her political awakening as a high school student in tsarist-occupied Poland until her murder in 1919 during the German revolution, Rosa Luxemburg acted and wrote as a proletarian revolutionist. Rosa Luxemburg Speaks takes us inside the political battles between revolution and class collaboration that still shape the modern workers movement.
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Wish I'd heard her speak in person,
By Katy LeRougetel (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This collection is worth it for the article "What is economics" alone. You'll never feel the need to plough through another tedious economics tome again. She applies her razor-sharp wit to ripping apart conventional economists' dronings. Explaining how early 19th century economists really tried to elucidate the workings of the system, she lays out how, once they'd realized that they were exposing a class system of exploitation that had no future, the whole lot just dissolved into obscurantist ramblings in order to befuddle the rest of us. Her exposé certainly makes Greenspan and his ilk look like either benighted fools or not-very-sophisticated snake oil peddlers. I loved it. No wonder I flunked Economics 101 - it didn't seem to make any sense because it doesn't. You'll never feel like a fool reading the Business section again.
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A revolutionary woman,
By Martin Boyers (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary born in a Poland, which had been divided up amongst Germany, Austria, and Russia. This historical accident enabled her to be a participant in the working class movement in Poland, Russia, and Germany. She was a member of Germany's massive Social Democratic Party for the bulk of her life. This collection includes writings on subjects ranging from the German socialist leadership's betrayal of its working class following, capitalism and war, why workers can and should understand economics, and the new road to social justice opened by the Russian revolution. It is no wonder that the German ruling class, anxious to hold the line against the rising tide of workers and farmers revolution, murdered this fighter in 1919.
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shareholding societies, political mass strike, isolated capitalist, social democratic agitation, bourgeois class rule, proletarian class struggle, antisocialist laws, socialist proletariat, modern labor movement, present world war, social democratic group, war credits, mass strikes, tactical policy, cial democracy, republican defense, czarist empire, economic strikes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rosa Luxemburg, Middle Ages, United States, Neue Zeit, Karl Marx, Konrad Schmidt, Communist Manifesto, Great French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Karl Liebknecht, May Day, October Revolution, Second International, Paris Commune, Eduard Bernstein, German Reichstag, March Revolution, Petite Republique, German Communist Party, Professor Schmoller, Roman Empire, Spartacus League, White Book, Adam Smith, Council of People's Commissars New!
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shareholding societies, political mass strike, isolated capitalist, social democratic agitation, bourgeois class rule, proletarian class struggle, antisocialist laws, socialist proletariat, modern labor movement, present world war, social democratic group, war credits, mass strikes, tactical policy, cial democracy, republican defense, czarist empire, economic strikes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rosa Luxemburg, Middle Ages, United States, Neue Zeit, Karl Marx, Konrad Schmidt, Communist Manifesto, Great French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Karl Liebknecht, May Day, October Revolution, Second International, Paris Commune, Eduard Bernstein, German Reichstag, March Revolution, Petite Republique, German Communist Party, Professor Schmoller, Roman Empire, Spartacus League, White Book, Adam Smith, Council of People's Commissars New!
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- Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times by Stephen Eric Bronner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism by Stephen Eric Bronner on page 23, and page 136
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