Rosa Luxemburg Summary

Rosa Luxemburg Born March 5, 1871 Zamosc, Poland Died January 15, 1919 Berlin, Germany Revolutionary political leader, writer, and orator Rosa Luxemburg was born at a time when monarchs ruled in Rus... Read more

Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was a Polish revolutionary and theorist. She led the German workers' uprisings which followed World War I and is considered one of the pioneer activists and foremost martyrs... Read more

In the following essay, Frolich explains how and why he collected material for his survey of Luxemburg's life and work. The first edition of [Rosa Luxemburg: Her Life and Work] was published... Read more

Davis is an American author and professor of economics. In the following essay, he discusses how Luxemburg and Lenin differed on the issue of what qualified as nationalism, and how Luxemburg contraste... Read more

A German-born American political philosopher and literary essayist, Arendt was one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century. Perceiving the political thinker as a "trut... Read more

In the following essay, Schlesinger considers the aspects of Luxemburg's writings and activism that pertained to the issue of the military industrial complex. My lack of knowledge of the Pol... Read more

Sweezy is an American Marxist economist. In the following essay, he describes how Luxemburg's idea of the accumulation of capital grew from her study of Karl Marx's theories. [The Acc... Read more

In the following essay, Vollrath compares Luxemburg's theory of political action to ideas of Cicero, Robespierre and the American Federalists, as well as her Marxist contemporaries and successo... Read more