Renowned Marxist scholar Michael Löwy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary.
Vibrant, insightful, and wide-ranging, Löwy’s essays illuminate the heroic, tough-minded idealist and martyr, Rosa Luxemburg. Active in the labor and socialist movements of Germany, Poland, and Russia, Luxemburg had international standing as an original and sharp-minded theorist during her life and remains one of the most admired and studied revolutionaries in the Marxist tradition.
Löwy follows Luxemburg in blending diverse intellectual disciplines—philosophy, history, political science, sociology, anthropology, and economics—to make sense of global realities in her time and our own. Luxemburg’s creative intellectual endeavors were shaped by her genuine devotion to the free development of all people, and her fierce opposition to all forms of tyranny and authoritarianism. These commitments guided her analyses of exploitation and mass struggle, the dynamics of trade unions and of bureaucracy, the origins and impacts of economic crisis, the nature of war and imperialism, and the interconnections of reform and revolution.
In accessible and stimulating prose, Löwy explores Luxemburg’s many political and theoretical contributions, as well as her links to revolutionaries including Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, Georg Lukács, José Carlos Mariátegui, and Leon Trotsky. Through Löwy’s expansive engagement with Luxemburg‘s political trajectory and influence, we are able to see her wrestle with political problems that remain relevant today.
Other books by Michael Löwy, edited by Paul Le Blanc
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Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark
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Revolutionary Collective
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Marx in Paris, 1871
by Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy -
Revolutions
by Michael Löwy -
The Living Flame
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US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part I: Emergence
Edited by Thomas Bias, Paul Le Blanc, et al. -
US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part II: Endurance
Edited by Thomas Bias, Paul Le Blanc, et al. -
US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part III: Resurgence
Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Bryan D. Palmer -
The American Exceptionalism of Jay Lovestone and His Comrades, 1929-1940
Edited by Tim Davenport and Paul Le Blanc -
C. L. R. James and Revolutionary Marxism
Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Scott McLemee
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Revolutionary Studies
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October Song
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Black Liberation and the American Dream
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Left Americana
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Trotskyism in the United States
Edited by George Breitman, Paul Le Blanc, et al.
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From Marx to Gramsci
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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class
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Lenin and the Revolutionary Party
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Ecosocialism
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Leon Trotsky and the Organizational Principles of the Revolutionary Party
by Dianne Feeley, Paul Le Blanc, et al.
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Unfinished Leninism
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On Changing the World
by Michael Löwy -
The Politics of Combined and Uneven Development
by Michael Löwy -
The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx
by Michael Löwy