Tag Archives: Rosa Luxembourg

Tolstoy’s literary estate

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The last in our series of previously untranslated works by Rosa Luxemburg shows a different side of her output. It was first published in Die Neue Zeit 1912-13, Vol 2, pp97-100. CS member Ben Lewis has been assisting with these translations Tolstoy’s literary estate, which has been published in German in  three volumes by Ladyschnikow in ...

SPD and the swamp

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This previously untranslated article, ‘After the Jena congress’, by Rosa Luxemburg is of particular interest. A cool analytical summation of the Jena congress of German Social Democracy in September 1913, it sounds a warning against the new alignment of the party’s centre and right against the left. In a sign of things to come, the ...

Socialism excludes minority rule

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‘Blanquism and social democracy’ is a June 1906 polemic against Georgi Plekhanov, ‘father of Russian Marxism’ and Menshevik leader, taken from Czerwony Sztandar, paper of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania. It continues our series of Rosa Luxemburg’s previously untranslated writings, translated by CS member Ben Lewis Comrade Plekhanov has published an ...