Luxemburg
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Luxemburg

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Luxemburg

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This new biography takes a fresh view, re-examining Luxemburg's tempestuous career and her dream of socialism

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Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781905791293
eBook ISBN
9781910376812
Notes
1. Paul Frölich, Rosa Luxemburg (Pluto Press & Bookmarks, London: 1994) p 23, hereafter Frölich.
2. Richard Abraham, Rosa Luxemburg: A Life for the International (Berg, Oxford, New York and Munich: 1989) p 23, hereafter Abraham.
3. Luise Kautsky, ‘Remembering Rosa Luxemburg’, in Paul Le Blanc, Rosa Luxemburg: Reflections and Writings (Humanity Books, Amherst, New York: 1999) p 34, hereafter Luise Kautsky.
4. 24 June 1898, Elzbieta Ettinger (ed. & trans.), Comrade and Lover, Rosa Luxemburg’s Letters to Leo Jogiches (Pluto Press, London: 1979) p 47, hereafter Comrade and Lover.
5. 20 April 1900, Elzbieta Ettinger, Rosa Luxemburg A Life (Beacon Press, Boston, Mass.: 1986) p 105, hereafter Ettinger.
6. Ettinger, p 11.
7. Comrade and Lover, pp 1–2.
8. Ettinger, p 27.
9. Richard Pipes, Communism A Brief History (Weidenfeld & nicolson, London: 2001) p 8, hereafter Pipes.
10. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (trans. Samuel Moore), The Communist Manifesto (The Merlin Press, London: 1998) pp 3, 11, 30, hereafter The Communist Manifesto.
11. The Communist Manifesto, p 18.
12. Meghnad Desai, Marx’s Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism (Verso, London and New York: 2004) p 10, hereafter Desai.
13. Karl Marx, Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, quoted Desai, p 44.
14. Stephen Eric Bronner, Rosa Luxemburg A Revolutionary for Our Times (Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania: 1987) p 85.
15. Frölich, p 29.
16. Comrade and Lover, p xix.
17. J P Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg (Oxford University Press, Oxford and London: 1966, two volumes) Vol 1, p 64, hereafter Nettl.
18. 14 September 1899, Comrade and Lover, p 19.
19. Luise Kautsky, pp 35, 48.
20. Description by John Mill, Nettl Vol 1, p 83.
21. Nettl Vol 2, p 674.
22. Ettinger, p 90.
23. Ettinger, pp 45, 55.
24. Comrade and Lover, p ix–xx.
25. Sam Dolgoff (ed.), Bakunin on Anarchism (Black Rose Books, Montreal: 1980) p 295.
26. Donald Sassoon, One Hundred Years o...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. At your age I didn’t play with dolls, I made the revolution 1871–90
  8. I neither exist nor live as myself 1891–8
  9. I shall occupy a position at the top of the party 1898–1902
  10. But Marx, you know, ends up by making me angry 1902–04
  11. The revolution is magnificent. All else is bilge 1904–06
  12. He wriggles like a cornered snake 1907–12
  13. Sacrifice is part of the socialist’s craft 1913–16
  14. I feel so little inclination for the impending brawl 1916–18
  15. A beginning has been made 1918–19
  16. Notes
  17. Chronology
  18. Further Reading
  19. Picture Sources
  20. Index

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