The Rosa Luxemburg Reader

Among the major Marxist thinkers of the Russian Revolution era, Rosa Luxemburg stands out as one who speaks to our own time. Her legacy grows in relevance as the global character of the capitalist market becomes more apparent and the critique of bureaucratic power is more widely accepted within the movement for human liberation. **The Rosa Luxemburg Reader** is the definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings in English translation. Unlike previous publications of her work from the early 1970s, this volume includes substantial extracts from her major economic writings—above all, The Accumulation of Capital (1913)—and from her political writings, including Reform or Revolution (1898), the Junius Pamphlet (1916), and The Russian Revolution (1918). The Reader also includes a number of important texts that have never before been published in English translation, including substantial extracts from her Introduction to Political Economy (1916), and a recently-discovered piece on slavery. With a substantial introduction assessing Luxemburg's work in the light of recent research, **The Rosa Luxemburg Reader** is an indispensable resource for scholarship and an inspiration for a new generation of activists. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction by Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson Part I: Political Economy, Imperialism, and Non-Western Societies 1. The Historical Conditions of Accumulation, from The Accumulation of Capital 2. The Dissolution of Primitive Communism: From the Ancient Germans and the Incas to India, Russia, and Southern Africa, from Introduction to Political Economy 3. Slavery 4. Martinique Part II: The Politics of Revolution: from the Critique of Reformism, Theory of the Mass Strike, Writings on Women 5. Social Reform and Revolution 6. The Mass Strike, the Political Party, and Trade Unions 7. Address to the Fifth Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party 8. Theory and Practice 9. Writings on Women 1902-14: a. A Tactical Question b. Address to the International Socialist Women’s Conference c. Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle d. The Proletarian Woman Part III: Spontaneity, Organization, and Democracy in the Disputes with Lenin 10. Organizational Questions of Russian Social Democracy 11. Credo: On the State of Russian Social Democracy 12. The Russian Revolution Part IV: From Opposition to World War to the Actuality of Revolution 13. The Junius Pamphlet: The Crisis in German Social Democracy 14. Speeches and Letters on War and Revolution, 1918-19 a. The Beginning c. What Does the Spartacus League Want? d. Our Program and the Political Situation e. Order Reigns in Berlin Part V: “Like a Clap of Thunder” 15. Selected Correspondence, 1899-1917 Notes Acknowledgments Index Back Cover

Among the major Marxist thinkers of the Russian Revolution era, Rosa Luxemburg stands out as one who speaks to our own time. Her legacy grows in relevance as the global character of the capitalist market becomes more apparent and the critique of bureaucratic power is more widely accepted within the movement for human liberation.

The Rosa Luxemburg Reader is the definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings in English translation. Unlike previous publications of her work from the early 1970s, this volume includes substantial extracts from her major economic writings-above all, The Accumulation of Capital (1913)-and from her political writings, including Reform or Revolution (1898), the Junius Pamphlet (1916), and The Russian Revolution (1918).

The Reader also includes a number of important texts that have never before been published in English translation, including substantial extracts from her Introduction to Political Economy (1916), and a recently-discovered piece on slavery. With a substantial introduction assessing Luxemburg's work in the light of recent research, The Rosa Luxemburg Reader is an indispensable resource for scholarship and an inspiration for a new generation of activists.

Among the major Marxist thinkers of the Russian Revolution era, Rosa Luxemburg stands out as one who speaks to our own time. Her legacy grows in relevance as the global character of the capitalist market becomes more apparent and the critique of bureaucratic power is more widely accepted within the movement for human liberation. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader is the definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings in English translation. Unlike previous publications of her work from the early 1970s, this volume includes substantial extracts from her major economic writingsabove all, The Accumulation of Capital (1913)and from her political writings, including Reform or Revolution (1898), the Junius Pamphlet (1916), and The Russian Revolution (1918). The Reader also includes a number of important texts that have never before been published in English translation, including substantial extracts from her Introduction to Political Economy (1916), and a recently-discovered piece on slavery. With a substantial introduction assessing Luxemburg's work in the light of recent research, The Rosa Luxemburg Reader is an indispensable resource for scholarship and an inspiration for a new generation of activists. " In this first section, we ascertained that Marx's diagram of accumulation does not solve the question of who is to benefit in the end by enlarged reproduction.