{"product_id":"the-complete-works-volume-of-rosa-luxemburg-volume-v-isbn-9781784782818","title":"The Complete Works Volume of Rosa Luxemburg: Volume V","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis volume is the first to contain all of Luxemburg’s eloquent writings on the 1917 Russian Revolution and 1918-19 German Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is the first to contain all of Luxemburg’s eloquent writings on the 1917 Russian and 1918-19 German Revolutions. It also contains articles, essays and manuscripts on the European socialist movement prior to World War I and her effort to rebuild the socialist movement on revolutionary foundations in its aftermath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuch of this material appears in English for the first time. Her incisive contributions on revolutionary strategy, the German and Russian Revolutions, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe is horrified yet at the same time grimly analytical while surveying the unfolding violence and brutality of the First World War.Deeply inspired by Russia’s 1917 upsurge, she is nonetheless compelled to analyze and criticize fatal limitations of the Russian Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSwept up in the revolutionary chaos sweeping through Germany in 1918-1919 which results in her own martyrdom, she gives voice to revolution’s final testament: “I was, I am, I shall be.”\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEditorial Foreword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction: Rosa Luxemburg and the Marxist Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- by Helen C. Scott and Paul Le Blanc\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1910\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat Course Now?\u003cbr\u003eParty Congress of the SPD of Germany, September 18–24, 1910, in Magdeburg\u003cbr\u003eThe Political Mass Strike and the Trade Unions\u003cbr\u003eThe Political Mass Strike and the Unions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1911\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStolypin’s Regime\u003cbr\u003eThe Reichstag Debates on the Mass Strike\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1913\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLódz\u003cbr\u003eLódz’s Huge Struggle\u003cbr\u003eOn the Political Mass Strike: A Police Report\u003cbr\u003eOn Lódz’s Huge Struggle\u003cbr\u003eOn the Political Mass Strike [August 1913]\u003cbr\u003eOn the Political Mass Strike [August 12, 1913]\u003cbr\u003eLódz’s Huge Struggle\u003cbr\u003eJena Party Congress\u003cbr\u003eOn the Political Mass Strike [September 19–20, 1913]\u003cbr\u003eMass Strike and the Taxation Question\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1914\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan the Mass Strike be Considered a Means of Defense for the Proletariat in a Changed Political Constellation?\u003cbr\u003eOn the Prussian Suffrage Struggle\u003cbr\u003eOnce Again the Prussian Suffrage Struggle\u003cbr\u003eThe Establishment of a Mass Strike Fund\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1915\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat’s with Liebknecht?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1916\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiebknecht\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1917\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Russian Revolution\u003cbr\u003eThe Revolution in Russia\u003cbr\u003eRussian Problems\u003cbr\u003eThe Old Mole\u003cbr\u003eTwo Easter Messages\u003cbr\u003eBurning Issues of Our Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1918–19\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorical Responsibility\u003cbr\u003eFragment Concerning War, the National Question and Revolution\u003cbr\u003eNot Following the Script\u003cbr\u003eToward the Catastrophe\u003cbr\u003eHandwritten Fragments on the History of the International, German Social Democracy, War, Revolution, and Post-War Perspectives\u003cbr\u003eOn the Russian Revolution\u003cbr\u003eThe Russian Tragedy\u003cbr\u003eThe Little Lafayettes\u003cbr\u003eThe Beginning\u003cbr\u003eThe Old Game\u003cbr\u003eThe National Assembly\u003cbr\u003eA Daring Game\u003cbr\u003eTo the Proletarians of All Countries\u003cbr\u003eThe Acheron in Motion\u003cbr\u003eParty Congress of the Independent Socialist Party\u003cbr\u003eThe “Immature” Mass\u003cbr\u003eThe Socialization of Society\u003cbr\u003eFourteen Dead—One Woman Murdered\u003cbr\u003eOn the Executive Council\u003cbr\u003eWhat Does the Spartacus League Want?\u003cbr\u003eTo the Barricades\u003cbr\u003eExtraordinary General Assembly of the German Independent Social Democratic Party of Greater Berlin—On December 15, 1918\u003cbr\u003eNational Assembly or Council Government?\u003cbr\u003eEbert’s Mamelukes\u003cbr\u003eA Pyrrhic Victory\u003cbr\u003eThe Election of the National Assembly\u003cbr\u003eThe Reich Conference of the Spartacus League\u003cbr\u003eFounding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany\u003cbr\u003eThe First Party Congress\u003cbr\u003eWhat Are Our Leaders Doing?\u003cbr\u003eNeglected Obligations\u003cbr\u003eThe Leaders’ Failure\u003cbr\u003eHouses of Cards\u003cbr\u003eOrder Prevails in Berlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppendix\u003c\/i\u003e: Once Again, On Organization and Disorganization\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Glossary of Personal Names\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\"Intrepid, incorruptible, passionate and gentle. Imagine as you read between the lines of what she wrote, the expression of her eyes. She loved workers and birds. She danced with a limp. Everything about her fascinates and rings true. One of the immortals.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John Berger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One cannot read the writings of Rosa Luxemburg, even at this distance, without an acute yet mournful awareness of what Perry Anderson once termed 'the history of possibility.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Christopher Hitchens, \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Luxemburg's criticism of Marxism as dogma and her stress on consciousness exerted an influence on the women's liberation movement which emerged in the late '60s and early '70s.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sheila Rowbotham, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A radical of luminous dimension.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Vivian Gornick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rosa goes on being our source of fresh water in thirsty times.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Eduardo Galeano\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone hoping to explore the politics of socialism from below, learn more about one of the most enthralling periods of revolutionary history, or restore their faith in the stunningly creative potential of the masses even in dark times should pick up \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume V\u003c\/i\u003e, and spend some time with the writings of one of the greatest visionaries history has ever known.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sean Larson, \u003ci\u003eTempest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)\u003c\/b\u003e was a Polish-Jewish revolutionary and one of the greatest theoretical minds of the European socialist movement. An activist in Germany and Poland, she authored numerous classic works in economics and politics, and is widely considered a foremost proponent of radical democracy. She was assassinated in January 1919 and has become a heroine of socialist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements around the world.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302108385509,"sku":"NP9781784782818","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781784782818.jpg?v=1767738804","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-complete-works-volume-of-rosa-luxemburg-volume-v-isbn-9781784782818","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}