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 of the international Communist movement. Rosa...

Rosa Luxemburg’s reputation and ideas still play a vital, if controversial, role in modern Marxism. She was involved in the Bolshevik movement and the development of Marxism into an active revolutionary movement and creed from the beginning,...

Prominent socialist writer who was born in Zamose, Poland, the daughter of a Jewish businessman. Educated at the Russian Second Gymnasium for Girls, Warsaw, and Zurich University where she graduated with a doctorate in law and political science in 1897...

The causal relationship between the flow of money capital and the flow of capital goods from a metropolis to colonies or other satellites. Rosa LUXEMBURG asserted that this could assume different forms including loans between states, PORTFOLIO...

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 Russia and Europe, and the majority of people lived in...

Rosa Luxemburg (Pol: Róża Luksemburg) (March 5, 1870/71 – January 15, 1919), was a Polish-born German Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary for the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland, the German SPD, and the...

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 to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene...

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 contrasted individual self-determination for the working-class with ethnic group identity.

In the following essay, Schlesinger considers the aspects of Luxemburg's writings and activism that pertained to the issue of the military industrial complex.

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 not make her anti-communist, as some of her detractors believe.