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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.
Since the 1970s there has been a Luxemburg
John Bellamy Foster is editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. Hannah Holleman is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation and an associate professor of sociology at Amherst College.
The “turn toward the indigenous” in social theory over the last couple of decades, associated with the critique of white settler colonialism, has reintroduced themes long present in Marxian theory, but in ways that are often surprisingly divorced from Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism.
February 6, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from John Riddell s Marxist Essays and Commentary The Communist International (or Comintern) was founded in Moscow in 1919, with the goal of helping to extend the socialist revolution that had taken place in Russia across Europe and around the world.
The Russian Communist (Bolshevik) party that had led in establishing Soviet power was respected in the International as a prime source of strategic and tactical guidance. Yet the Comintern’s statutes did not accord any primacy to the Russian Communist Party (RCP). Like other Comintern sections, the Russian party was answerable to the International’s world congresses.