The objective of the present article is to analyse the transition to the capitalism in Rosa Luxemburg's thinking. Therefore, we will discuss her wonder for the societies of primitive communism, the ...consequences of the capitalist expansion for these societies, and the increase in value and contribution of the experiences of the peripheric world in his work for an analysis of the capitalist phenomenon through a dialogue with the thought of Karl Marx. Keywords: primitive communism; Rosa Luxemburg; capitalist transition. O objetivo do presente artigo e analisar a transicao para o capitalismo no pensamento de Rosa Luxemburgo. Para tanto, iremos perpassar por sua admiracao pelas sociedades de comunismo primitivo, as consequencias da expansao capitalista para essas sociedades, e a valorizacao e contribuicao das experiencias do mundo periferico em sua obra para uma analise do fenomeno capitalista atraves de um dialogo com o pensamento de Karl Marx. Palavras-chaves: comunismo primitivo; Rosa Luxemburgo; transicao capitalista.
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) is commonly known as a political thinker, economist, and revolutionary socialist. A person of versatile interests and skills, she was certainly a widely admired public ...speaker, journalist, publisher, teacher, translator, editor, and party leader, as well as an amateur botanist, an occasional painter, and - particularly in her final years - an avid birdwatcher. What also powerfully comes through in her writing (especially her letters), but has received little attention to date, is that she had the mind and pen of an urban ethnographer. In her thick, vivid accounts of urban sights and sounds, Luxemburg generously tapped into her senses and emotions, in the process revealing how affect shapes urban experiences and imaginaries. Focusing on practices and politics of maintenance and care, this paper offers an analysis of Luxemburg's multisensory descriptions of her urban surroundings and 'the unavoidable challenge of negotiating a here-and-now' that Doreen Massey theorized as throwntogetherness. Taking seriously Luxemburg's observations in and about the city recorded in her letters and botanical notebooks reveals the small acts of commonplace theorizing that in academia are still too rarely recognized for what they are.
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On Jan 15, 1919, amid the beginnings of a revolution in post-World-War I Germany, Rosa Luxemburg, a Polish economist and leader of Germany's radical left, was executed in Berlin by militia acting on ...behalf of the governing Social Democratic Party. The spread of private insurance, outsourcing, and public-private partnerships, together with the deliberate underfunding of state-sponsored healthcare, have segmented and fragmented national health systems. At a moment when the global health narrative has coalesced around universal health coverage, the possibility of creating and managing comprehensive and integrated health systems is becoming ever more difficult.
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Uno de los pocos canales a través de los cuales la población madrileña pudo informarse y conocer a Rosa Luxemburg de manera (casi) instantánea fueron los periódicos. Estos, como ha demostrado la ...teoría de la agenda-setting, acaban influyendo en la opinión pública al resaltar y describir de determinadas formas los temas y las personas. Debido a ello, resulta de interés conocer qué imagen dieron los periódicos de Luxemburg, qué aspectos de ella destacaron y cómo la describieron para tener una aproximación a cómo la ciudadanía la percibió y qué conoció sobre ella.
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Pensar sobre el extraordinario legado intelectual y humano de Rosa Luxemburg no debería requerir un centenario. Reflexionar sobre lo mejor de la tradición materialista no tendría que justificarse ...recordando un hecho tan vergonzoso y luctuoso como su asesinato. Cuánta razón tuvo cuando en su último escrito afirmó, con la vehemencia, la generosidad y la inteligencia que había presidido su vida, que (…) Las masas son lo decisivo, ellas son la roca sobre la que se basa la victoria final de la revolución. Las masas han estado a la altura, ellas han hecho de esta “derrota” una pieza más de esa serie de derrotas históricas que constituyen el orgullo y la fuerza del socialismo internacional. Y por eso, del tronco de esta “derrota” florecerá la victoria futura. “¡El orden reina en Berlín!”, ¡esbirros estúpidos! Vuestro orden está edificado sobre arena. La revolución, mañana ya “se elevará de nuevo con estruendo hacia lo alto” y proclamará, para terror vuestro, entre sonido de trompetas: ¡Fui, soy y seré! (Luxemburg, 1999).
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Perhaps no concept has shaped discussions of capitalism and its contemporary transformations more than that of ongoing primitive accumulation. This paper examines, accounts for, and unpacks how ...primitive accumulation came, within a certain genre of conversations, to be so central. While there have been prior critiques of its usage, notably by Robert Brenner, few have returned to the source of the modern framing of the concept, Rosa Luxemburg. Through a discussion of David Harvey’s updating of primitive accumulation as accumulation by dispossession, I return to Luxemburg in order to extract two methodological principles from her work: follow the production of aspects of accumulation and think their organic link and track violence. I then deploy these methodological principles in a discussion of certain critical processes of accumulation in contemporary Mexico to demonstrate the spatialized “organic link” of Luxemburg and Harvey has been violently reconstituted.
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The protests on Tahrir Square in Cairo have come to symbolize the Arab uprisings of 2011. They have proven that Arab political life is more complex than the false choice between authoritarian rule or ...Islamist oppositions. The popular uprisings witnessed the emergence of “the Arab peoples” as political actors, able to topple entrenched authoritarian leaders, challenging repressive regimes and their brutal security apparatuses. In our contribution we want to analyze the political dynamics of these uprisings beyond the salient immediacy of the revolutionary events, by taking, as our guide, Rosa Luxemburg's pamphlet The Mass Strike (2005 1906, London: Bookmarks). An interesting theoretical contribution to the study of revolution, Luxemburg's book provides us with tools to introduce a historical and political reading of the Arab Spring. Based on fieldwork and thorough knowledge of the region, we draw from evidence from the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions and the more gradual forms of political change in Morocco.Re‐reading the revolutionary events in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco through the lens of The Mass Strike offers activists on the ground insights into the dialectic between local and national struggles, economic and political demands, strike actions and revolution. The workers protests in Tunisia and Egypt during the last decade can be grasped as anticipations of the mass strike during the revolution; the specific mode in which workers participate as a class in the revolutionary process. This perspective enables an understanding of the current economic conflicts as logical forms of continuity of the revolution. The economic and the political, the local and the national (and one may add the global), are indissoluble yet separate elements of the same process, and the challenge for revolutionary actors in Tunisia and Egypt lies in the connection, organization and fusion of these dispersed moments and spaces of struggle into a politicized whole. Conversely, an understanding of the reciprocity between revolutionary change and the mass strike allows activists in Morocco to recognize the workers' movement as a potentially powerful actor of change, and trade unionists to incorporate the political in their economic mobilizations.
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Or Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o who, in Secure the Base (2016), points out how western nations “Keep Africa eternally weak, eternally divided, eternally fighting religious wars, eternally buying weapons of war, ...eternally using the military against African populations, eternally assuming that the West, Europe in particular, is heaven.” Erin Babnik/Alamy Stock Photo Massimiliano Donati/Awakening/Getty Images Writing, notes Arundhati Roy in her recently published collected non-fiction (My Seditious Heart, 2019), is for her about uncovering “the relationship between power and powerlessness and the endless, circular conflict they’re engaged in”. Over 20 years of writing fiction and non-fiction (her two novels, The God of Small Things 1997 and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 2017, are investigations into the politics of the personal), Roy has constructed a surprising and compelling contribution to the canon of global health. ...those struggles must take place not in parliaments or courtrooms, but “in the fields, the mountains, the river valleys, the city streets, and university campuses”.
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