Kanishka Chowdhury, Science & Society, Vol. 71, No. 1, October 2007
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“Rosa Luxemburg travels into the twenty-first century like a great messenger bird, spanning continents, scanning history, to remind us that our present is not new but a continuation of a long human conflict changing only in intensity and scope. Her fiery critical intellect and ardent spirit are as vital for this time as in her own. With meticulous care, including valuable endnotes, editors Hudis and Anderson project her in the fullness of her being and thought.”
— Adrienne Rich
“Thanks, Rosa. You go on being our source of fresh water in thirsty times.”
— Eduardo Galeano
“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.”
— John Berger
“Rosa Luxemburg’s writings continue to be relevant … The Rosa Luxemburg reader will aptly serve to introduce her perceptive commentaries to a whole new generation of social and political activists.”
— Paul T. Vogel, The Midwest Book Review
Part I: Political Economy, Imperialism, and Non-Western Societies
1. The Historical Conditions of Accumulation, from The Accumulation of Capital
2. The Dissolution of Primitive Communism: From the Ancient Germans and the Incas to India, Russia, and Southern Africa, from Introduction to Political Economy
3. Slavery
4. Martinique
Part II: The Politics of Revolution: from the Critique of Reformism, Theory of the Mass Strike, Writings on Women
5. Social Reform and Revolution
6. The Mass Strike, the Political Party, and Trade Unions
7. Address to the Fifth Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party
8. Theory and Practice
9. Writings on Women 1902-14:
a. A Tactical Question
b. Address to the International Socialist Women’s Conference
c. Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle
d. The Proletarian Woman
Part III: Spontaneity, Organization, and Democracy in the Disputes with Lenin
10. Organizational Questions of Russian Social Democracy
11. Credo: On the State of Russian Social Democracy
12. The Russian Revolution
Part IV: From Opposition to World War to the Actuality of Revolution
13. The Junius Pamphlet: The Crisis in German Social Democracy
14. Speeches and Letters on War and Revolution, 1918-19
a. The Beginning
b. The Socialization of Society
c. What Does the Spartacus League Want?
d. Our Program and the Political Situation
e. Order Reigns in Berlin
Part V: “Like a Clap of Thunder”
15. Selected Correspondence, 1899-1917