The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume III

Rosa Luxemburg, Henry Holland, Alicja Mann, George Shriver

Description

Luxemburg's corruscating politics texts on the 1905 Revolution
This collection is the first of three volumes of the Complete Works devoted to the central theme of Rosa Luxemburg's life and work-revolution. Spanning the years 1897 to the end of 1905, they contain speeches, articles, and essays on the strikes, protests, and political debates that culminated in the 1905 Russian Revolution-one of the most important social upheavals of modern times.

Luxemburg's near-daily articles and reports during 1905 on the ongoing revolution (which comprises the bulk of this volume) shed new light on such issues as the relation of spontaneity and organization, the role of national minorities in social revolution, and the inseparability ofthe struggle for socialism from revolutionary democracy. We become witness to Luxemburg's effort to respond to the impulses, challenges, and ideas arising from a living revolutionary process, which in turn becomes the source of much of her subsequent political theory-such as her writings on the mass strike, her strident internationalism, and her insistence that revolutionary struggle never take its eyes off of the need to transform the human personality.

Virtually all of these writings appear in English for the first time (translated from both German and Polish) and many have only recently been identified as having been written by Luxemburg.

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie politique
• Political Ideologies
• Political
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophie et théologie
• Revolutions
• Rosa Luxemburgo
• Communism
• Russian Revolution
• Revolution
• Russia
• Politics
• Révolution (homonymie)
• Révolution russe
• Poland
• Communisme
• Rosa Luxemburg
• 1905
• Russie

Informations

• Publié par: Verso
• Date de parution: 08 janvier 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786635358
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Cvmplete Wvrks vf Rvsa Luxemburg

The Cvmplete Wvrks vf Rvsa Luxemburg VOLUME III, POLITICAL WRITINGS 1: ON REVOLUTION, 1897–1905 Edited by Peter Hudis, Axel Fair-Schulz, and William A. Pelz Translated by George Shriver, Alicja Mann, and Henry Holland

Verso would like to express its gratitude to Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung for help in publishing this book

The publisher also gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Dietz Verlag, publisher of Rosa Luxemburg’sGesammelte Werke, the German source of all English translations herein

This paperback edition first published 2022 First published by Verso 2019 Translation © George Shriver, Alicja Mann, and Henry Holland 2019, 2022

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Dedicated to the memory of William A. Pelz (1951–2017) Scholar, teacher, activist, and friend of all who sought to build a truly new society

Contents

Acknowledgments Editorial Foreword Introduction byWilliam A. Pelz and Axel Fair-Schulz Abbreviations

1897 Social Democratic Movement in the Lithuanian Provinces of Russia

1899 A Workers Newspaper in Russia A New Tsarist Circular

1902 Russian Women Workers in Battle

1904 The Russian Terrorist Trial Amid the Storm Political Breakthrough Proclamation of the SDKPiL Chief Executive Committee of December 1904: Onward to Storm the Autocracy

1905 The Russian Year The Uprising of the Petersburg Proletariat After the First Act The Revolution in Russia [January 22, 1905] Revolution in Petersburg! The Revolution in Russia [February 8, 1905] The Problem of the “Hundred Peoples” General Strike The Revolution in Russia [February 9 and 10, 1905] The Revolution in Russia [February 11–16, 1905] Terror Religious Procession of the Proletariat Under the Sign of Social Democracy A Test Based on a Sample A Political Settling of the Score In the Bonfire Glow of the Revolution May Day Massacres in Russia Bloody May The Revolution in Russia [May 4, 1905] Murder in Warsaw A Year of Revolution Two Camps To the Polish Intelligentsia A Giant Demonstration in Łódź The Cards Are on the Table The ‘Peaceful’ Action of the PPS Honorable Gentlemen—Lawyers of Poland Conference of Socialist and Revolutionary Organizations Up-and-Coming Men in Russia Russian Party Controversies Strike-Revolution in Łódź