Reform or Revolution

Deciphering a classic... The Missing: --My main complaint has nothing to do with Luxemburg and her arguments; she wrote this as a critique of Bernstein, whereas my purpose for reading this is to learn about “Reform or Revolution”. This book pamphlet is too specific to serve as an introduction, and too......more

I was very touched by the story of Rosa's tragic death when I read about it the first time. Almost 10 years later, on the first day of my visit to Berlin in 2005, i asked Denis, my dear german friend, to guide me to where Rosa and Leibnekht were assassinated by the proto-Nazi Freikorps and thrown in......more

Rosa Luxemburg was a firebrand socialist, a pioneering political woman and Marxist theorist. She was a member of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD, the same ones in coalition with Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats over a century later!) and later the Communist Party of Germany.......more

Bernstein got #rekt......more

Short, iconic, and thoroughly enjoyable, Rosa Luxemburg's takedown of Eduard Bernstein's reformism is still well worth reading. While the work is essentially a philippic against Bernstein, it does still deal with prescient questions: Is reform enough? Should we aim merely to make 'the poor rich', or......more