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Synopsis
This is the most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, including 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements - Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht - who were her closest friends, lovers and colleagues. Many of these letters appear for the first time in English translation; all help to illuminate the inner life of this iconic revolutionary, who was at once an economic and social theorist, a political activist and a lyrical stylist. Her political concerns are revealed alongside her personal struggles within a socialist movement that was often hostile to independently minded women. This collection will provide readers with a newer and deeper appreciation of Luxemburg as a writer and historical figure.
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One cannot read the writings of Rosa Luxemburg, even at this distance, without an acute yet mournful awareness of what Perry Anderson once termed 'the history of possibility.' --Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic
She emerges as one of the most emotionally intelligent socialists in modern history, a radical of luminous dimension whose intellect is informed by sensibility, and whose largeness of spirit places her in the company of the truly impressive. --Vivian Gornick, Nation
George Shriver's new translation of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg is the most comprehensive collection of her correspondence yet to appear in English. It transports us directly into the private world of a woman who has never lost her inspirational power as an original thinker and courageous activist - [and] reveals that the woman behind the mythic figure was also a compassionate, teasing, witty human being. --Sheila Rowbotham, Guardian
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This work explores the political and personal life of an extraordinary woman. Opposed to both authoritarianism and instrumental reformism, an advocate of radical democracy and individual responsibility, Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919) is perhaps the most eminent representative of the libertarian socialist tradition, and her work still sparks political and scholarly debate. The introduction by Bronner places the Rosa Luxemburg in context and explores the legacy of her thought. This volume, first published in 1978, offers an extensive collection of Rosa Luxemburg's letters. This edition adds about 50 new letters and a new preface.
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