Issue section: Rosa Luxemburg Symposium

Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary Life

By: Helen Scott Summer 2019

Rosa Luxemburg’s legacy is very live, very relevant, and very contested. One of the ways to understand this particular political valence is to see her not only as an exceptional individual, which she surely was, but also as

Rosa Luxemburg’s Legacy for Feminism

By: Nancy Holmstrom Summer 2019

Many people who know something about Rosa Luxemburg would be surprised to hear the name of this talk: They know Luxemburg as the author of the brilliant pamphlets The Mass Strike and Reform or Revolution; they know that she debated

Rosa Luxemburg and the Necessity of Anti-Imperialism for Revolutionary Socialism

By: Alyssa Adamson Summer 2019

Today prominent political leaders are calling themselves socialists, but even if the terms “socialist” and “democratic socialism” are being used, it is often unclear what exactly is meant by these terms and what kind of political projects they embody. In

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