Rosa Luxemburg 
Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism 
Selected Writings

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 imperialism; history; war and peace; social struggles, trade unions, political parties; class, gender, race; the interconnection of humanity with the natural environment. The editors provide an extensive and informative introduction outlining and evaluating her life and thought.



This is the most comprehensive introduction to the range of Rosa Luxemburg’s thought.

Tabella dei contenuti

Introduction by Helen C. Scott and Paul Le Blanc

Sources, Further Reading, Acknowledgements

1. The French Revolution

2. Reform or Revolution

3. Eight Hour Day – How to Win Reforms

4. Stagnation and Progress of Marxism

5. Organisational Questions of Russian Social Democracy

6. Socialism and the Churches

7. The Mass Strike, the Political Party, and the Trade Unions

8. Blanquism and Social Democracy

9. The National Question

10. Theory and Practice,

11. Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle

12. Lassalle’s Legacy

13. The Accumulation of Capital –An Anti-Critique

14. The Crisis of German Social Democracy (Junius Pamphlet)

15.Two Prison Letters to Sonya Liebknecht

16. The Russian Revolution

17. Founding Convention of the German Communist Party

18. Order Prevails in Berlin

Index

Circa l’autore

Paul Le Blanc is a long-time activist and Professor of History at La Roche College, Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books, including Lenin and the Revolutionary Party, From Marx to Gramsci and The Living Flame: The Revolutionary Passion of Rosa Luxemburg.