The two works included here are critical appraisals of Lenin's penchant for personal dictatorship over his party, the dictatorship of his Central Committee over its locals, and the dictatorship of his party over the working class.

The Russian Revolution, and Leninism or Marxism?

History

Luxemburg, Rosa

Russia

Praeger

Rede zum Programm: Gehalten auf dem Gründungsparteitag der Kommunistischen-Partei Deutschlands (Spartakusbund) Am 29.-31. Dezember 1918 zu Berlin (Classic Reprint)

Forgotten Books

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earlier she had published what was undoubtedly her finest achievement, The Accumulation of Capital - a book which remains one of the masterpieces of socialist literature. Taking Marx as her starting point, she offers an independent and fiercely critical explanation of the economic and political consequences of capitalism in the context of the turbulent times in which she lived, reinterpreting events in the United States, Europe, China, Russia and the British Empire. Many today believe there is no alternative to global capitalism. This book is a timely and forceful statement of an opposing view.

The Accumulation of Capital (Routledge Classics)

Business & Money

Biography & History

Routledge

Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919), one of the most remarkable and controversial personalities in the Marxist movement, opposes in this book not the Bolshevik’s quest for power but the way they took power, the way they held power, the way they justified themselves in doing both. In the light of the soviet collapse her penetrating but not unsympathetic criticism becomes a grave indictment and her fears for the Communists uncannily prophetic of events to come.

The Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism? (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

University of Michigan Press

A polemic writing by the famous "Red Rosa" Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1899) explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contradictions. An effective refutation of revisionist interpretations of Marxist doctrine, it defines the position of scientific socialism on the issues of social reforms, the state, democracy, and the character of the proletarian revolution. Reform or Revolution opposes Edward Bernstein's revisionist theories, which rejected Marxism in favor of trade unionism and parliamentary procedures. Luxemburg offers articulate and reasoned objections to all of Bernstein's arguments. She defends the necessity for socialism, which provides an answer to the contradictions and inevitable crisis of the capitalist economy, along with a means for a transformation in working class consciousness. This essay remains a key explanation of why there can be no parliamentary road to socialism. It appears here together with Luxemburg's writings on "Leninism or Marxism," "The Mass Strike," and "The Russian Revolution."

Reform or Revolution and Other Writings (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)

Reference

Dover Publications

Socialism or Barbarism?: The Selected Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (Get Political)

Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was one of the most brilliant and passionate minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement. An outstanding social and economic theorist of the twentieth century, and a dedicated political activist, she proved willing to go to prison and even give her life for her beliefs.Providing an extensive overview of her writings, this volume contains a number of items never before anthologised. Her work was broad in scope tackling capitalism and socialism; globalisation and imperialism; history; war and peace; social struggles, trade unions, political parties; class, gender, race; the interconnection of humanity with the natural environment. The editors provide an extensive and informative introduction outlining and evaluating her life and thought.This is the most comprehensive introduction to the range of Rosa Luxemburg’s thought.

Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism: Selected Writings (Get Political)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Pluto Press

Rosa Luxembourg was a founding communist and then she rejected communism and then she was assasinated. Along the way she wrote this book about about how capitalism works and more important can work. Read with an open inquiring mind and enjoy a great great thinker.

Accumulation of Capital

Economics

Monthly Review+press

Selected Political Writings of Rosa Luxemburg

Biographies & Memoirs

Text: English, German (translation)

Literature & Fiction

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