Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) is best known as the author of Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to an Economic Explanation of Imperialism, as a theorist of spontaneous working class movements, and as a defender of proletarian democracy after the Russian revolution. Naming Luxemburg a feminist has been surprisingly controversial.  But the question is why? What is at stake in calling Rosa Luxemburg a feminist? This meeting will explore this question in the context of Luxemburg’s analysis of gender in her time and what we might draw from that analysis today.

Speakers:

• Sandra Rein, co-editor of Rosa Luxemburg: Political Writings on Revolution (1906-1909)

With a comment by:

• Rocio Lopez, socialist feminist writer and activist

Location:

Community Room (second floor – we regret no elevator or wheelchair accessibility — but see Zoom link for remote attendance)

The Original Farmers Market

6333 W. 3rd Street (corner Fairfax Ave., next to the Grove, 1.5 hrs free parking with food or drink purchase in Farmer’s Market lot. Use https://www.metro.net/riding/trip-planner/ for public transit.)

Los Angeles 90036

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Suggested reading:

• Rosa Luxemburg, “Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle” (1912), https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1912/05/12.htm

More on the speakers:

Sandra Rein is a political scientist at the University of Alberta. In addition to her participation in the Collected Works of Rosa Luxemburg, she has published on Luxemburg, Dunayevskaya, international relations theory, and contemporary Cuba. She also serves as the editor of Socialist Studies/Études socialistes, a scholarly journal of the Society of Socialist Studies in Canada.

Rocio Lopez has lived in Latin America and Japan and is a socialist feminist writer, most recently the author of “The Urgency of Supporting Both Palestine and Ukraine”

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