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The best introduction to the range of Rosa Luxemburg’s thought, including a number of writings never before anthologised.

Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism

Selected Writings

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    288 pages

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    6 September 2010

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Summary

Rosa Luxemburg’s writings reveal one of the most brilliant and passionate minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement. Through the letters, pamphlets and theorising, we see an outstanding social and economic theorist, a dedicated political activist and a devoted confidant.

Providing an extensive overview of her writings, this volume contains a number of items never before anthologised. Her work was broad in scope tackling capitalism and socialism; globalisation and imperiali…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780745329888
ISBN-10:0745329888
Author:Rosa Luxemburg, Helen C. Scott, Paul Le Blanc incorrect
Publisher:Pluto Press
Imprint:Pluto Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:6 September 2010
Weight:368g
Dimensions:135mm x 215mm
Series:Get Political
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Critics Review

‘Here, at last, in a single volume is an accessible introduction to one of the most important radical political thinkers of the 20th century with analysis and insight for a new generation of activist’ – Elaine Bernard, Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School

About The Author

Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher and economist. One of the most brilliant minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement, she was a dedicated political activist, she proved willing to go to prison and even give her life for her beliefs. Her selected works are collected in Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism (Pluto, 2010).Helen C. Scott is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is the editor of Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism (Pluto Press, 2010) and author of Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization (Routledge, 2006).Paul Le Blanc is an activist and acclaimed American historian teaching at La Roche University, Pennsylvania. A conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, his politics were at odds with the establishment from a young age. He has written extensively on the history of the labor and socialist movements of the United States and Europe, including books on Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg and the importance of the revolutionary collective.

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