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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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”.
The ongoing project to issue the Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, which will make all of her writings available in English translation, provides a critical lens to re-evaluate aspects of Luxemburg’s ...theoretical contribution that has often been passed over in much of the secondary literature on her. Of foremost importance in this regard is the distinctive contribution that she made to the understanding of how to achieve a transition to socialism in a developing society that remains surrounded by the capitalist world market and imperialist powers. This paper aims to show that her reflections during and after the 1905 Revolution, especially as reflected in a series of rarely studied articles and essays in the Polish revolutionary press, provides an important corrective to how the transition to socialism was understood by other Marxist currents.
Abstract This article aims to show the approach made throughout the life and works of Rosa Luxemburg in relation to the dichotomy: revolution or reform, a position that allowed the author to make a ...warning about revisionism and about the dangers that this position would bring within the Social Democracy and, more specifically, on the socialist project. ...this analysis allowed us to face an early reading on the causes and effects of the first and second world war on Socialism, by characterizing the revisionist manifestations within the German Social Democratic Party (spd) which, by including reformist methods, ended up remedying the crisis of capitalism by making the development of the political projects of the revolutionary party impossible from a commitment to Socialism. De ahí la importancia del análisis teórico-político que nos plantea Luxemburgo tanto para estudiar la historia y la teoría política como para entender las repercusiones de la socialdemocracia en el contexto actual. Rosa Luxemburgo vislumbró que el tránsito hacia una nueva etapa de la mundialización de ningún modo significaba la pérdida de la centralidad del capital industrial -por la supremacía del capital financiero-.
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