The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg - Hardcover

Luxemburg, Rosa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844674533 ISBN 13: 9781844674534

Verlag: Verso Books, 2011

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This is the most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg everpublished in English, including 190 letters written to leading figures in theEuropean and international labor and socialist movements––Leo Jogiches,Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht––who were her closestfriends, lovers and colleagues. Many of these letters appear for the first timein English translation; all help to illuminate the inner life of this iconicrevolutionary, who was at once an economic and social theorist, a politicalactivist and a lyrical stylist. Her political concerns are revealed alongsideher personal struggles within a socialist movement that was often hostileto independently minded women. This collection will provide readers witha newer and deeper appreciation of Luxemburg as a writer and historicalfigure.

About the series: Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) is widely regarded as one of the most creative writers of modern socialism and the foremost femaletheoretician of European radicalism. Her wide-ranging and incisive works, which include studies on capitalism’s inherent drivefor global expansion, the relation between spontaneity and organization, and the inseparability of democracy and socialism, havemade her a pole of attraction for theorists and activists around the world. Her fiercely independent intellect and uncompromisingdefense of human liberty speaks more powerfully to our era than to any other.

The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg will make her entire body of work available for the first time. It will contain all of herbooks, pamphlets, essays, articles, letters and manuscripts, many of which have never before appeared in English. It will alsoinclude writings of hers that have only recently been discovered. All of her previously published work in English will be newlytranslated from German, Polish, Russian, and Yiddish originals. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg will be published infourteen volumes, each with comprehensive annotations and introductions.

The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg will bring the contributions of this remarkable thinker andpersonality alive for new generations.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was a Polish-born Jewish revolutionary and one of the greatest theoretical minds of the European socialist movement. An activist in Germany and Poland and the author of numerous classic works, she participated in the founding of the German Communist Party and the Spartacist insurrection in Berlin in 1919. She was assassinated in January of that year and has since become a hero of socialist, communist and feminist movements around the world.

Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) was a Polish-born Jewish revolutionary and one of the greatest theoretical minds of the European socialist movement. An activist in Germany and Poland, the author of numerous classic works, she participated in the founding of the German Communist Party and the Spartacist insurrection in Berlin in 1919. She was assassinated in January of that year and has become a hero of socialist, communist and feminist movements around the world.

Annelies Laschitza, based in Germany, has produced a number of works focusing on the history of the labor movement in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century century. She has achieved worldwide recognition for editing of the Collected Letters of Luxemburg [in 6 volumes] as well as serving as co-editor of Luxemburg’s Collected Writings [in German]. She worked as a consultant for Margarethe von Trotta’s film “Rosa Luxemburg” [1986] and has produced an important [600-page] biography of Luxemburg, Full of Life, Despite Everything. Her work on Karl Liebknecht includes the book, The Liebknechts, Karl and Sophie: Politics and Family—the most comprehensive study of the life and work of Karl Liebknecht.

Peter Hudis is a Lecturer at Oakton Community College. He coedited The Letters of Rosa luxemburg; The Rosa Luxemburg Reader; and Raya Dunayevskaya’s Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1844674533
• ISBN 13: 9781844674534
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 609
• Herausgeber: Adler Georg, Hudis Peter, Laschitza Annelies
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