In thunder and lightning
Michael Roberts celebrates Rosa Luxemburg’s outstanding contribution to Marxist political economy
March 5 2021 was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg - the great revolutionary socialist of the Polish-German labour movement. Luxemburg’s contribution to socialist ideas and to the struggle to replace capitalism is too manifold for a short article to do her justice, so I will not attempt to do a proper job here. Instead, I shall offer a few comments on her contribution to Marxist political economy, along with some suggestions for some very useful critiques of her work.
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