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...
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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...
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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...
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Delany is an American-born Canadian author and educator. In the following essay, she comments on the revival of interest in Luxemburg's ideas and explores what made Luxemburg such a compelling ...
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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...
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Carsten is a German-born historian. In the following essay, he discusses Luxemburg's pamphlets in relation to the ideals of the German Social-Democratic party.
Among the rather unimaginative...
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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...
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Nettl was a German-born English political scientist and novelist. In the following essay, he surveys the main ideas of Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital.
Rosa Luxemburg always said tha...
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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...
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Lichtheim was a German-born social historian and authority on Karl Marx. In the following essay, which was originally published in Encounter in 1966, he considers Nettl's portrait of Luxemburg ...
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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...
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Waters is a Philippine-born American author and editor who specializes in feminist-socialist issues. In the following essay, she argues that Luxemburg's criticism of more famous Marxists does n...
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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...
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Today is Friday, July 6, the 187th day of 2007. There are 178 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Fifty years ago, on July 6, 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player...
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