A polemic writing by the famous "Red Rosa" Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1899) explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contradictions. An effective refutation of revisionist interpretations of Marxist doctrine, it defines the position of scientific socialism on the issues of social reforms, the state, democracy, and the character of the proletarian revolution.
Reform or Revolution opposes Edward Bernstein's revisionist theories, which rejected Marxism in favor of trade unionism and parliamentary procedures. Luxemburg offers articulate and reasoned...

Rosa Luxemburg was born in Poland in 1871. Living in Germany prior to World War I and being a member of the German Democratic Socialist Party she refused to support the war and was put in prison from 1914 to November 1918. In January 1919 she was murdered by reactionary German troops. In "Reform or Revolution" she sparked the debate as an activist and intellectual in European socialist circles. "The Mass Strike" is a classic work as she looked at the mass strike which came to a boiing point in the Russian Revolution of 1905. A Collector's Edition.

This new, authoritative introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's two most important works presents the full text of Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike, with explanatory notes, appendices, and introductions.

One of the most important Marxist thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century, Rosa Luxemburg is finding renewed interest among a new generation of activists and critics of global capitalism.

Drei Jahre und vier Monate hat Rosa Luxemburg wahrend des Krieges im Gefangnis verbracht. Wahrend dieser Zeit schrieb sie heimlich Briefe, u. a. an ihre Freundin Sonja Liebknecht, von denen eine Auswahl hier zusammengestellt wurde.

This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.

In addition to a new translation of her doctoral dissertation, "The Industrial Development of Poland," Volume I includes the first complete English-language publication of her "Introduction to Political Economy," which explores (among other issues) the impact of capitalist commodity production and industrialization on noncapitalist social...

Originally published in German in 1913 and written by a working-class woman, this volume is arguably still the most important advance on Marx's political economic writings to date. Rosa Luxemburg developed a theoretical foundation for the global drive and structural crisis of capitalism.

2015 Reprint of 1951 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. First published in 1913 and generally held to be her finest achievement, this volume reveals Luxemburg as a Marxist critical of Karl Marx. It offers a theory of the dynamic development of capitalism which is of continued relevance to contemporary scholarship. Taking Marx as her starting point, she offers an independent and fiercely critical explanation of the economic and political consequences of capitalism in the context of the turbulent times in which she lived,...

Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary was the co-founder of the German Spartacus League, and an important figure in the development of the German Social Democratic Party. -As a thinker she showed considerable honesty and independence of mind. 'The Accumulation of Capital, ' undoubtedly her finest achievement, reveals her as that rarest of all rare phenomena-a Marxist critical of Karl Marx.--W. Stark. Available in paperback (978-1-78139-461-8) and hardback (978-1-78139-462-5).