Reform or Revolution - Softcover

Luxemberg, Rosa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9395741708 ISBN 13: 9789395741705

Publisher: Sanage Publishing House LLP, 2022

Synopsis

Social Reform or Revolution? (German: Sozialreform oder Revolution?) is an 1899 pamphlet by Polish-German Marxist theorist Rosa Luxemburg. Luxemburg argues that trade unions, reformist political parties and the expansion of social democracy, while important to the proletariat's development of class consciousness cannot create a socialist society as Eduard Bernstein, among others, argued. Instead, she argues from a historical materialist perspective that capitalism is economically unsustainable and will eventually collapse and that a revolution is necessary to transform capitalism into socialism. The pamphlet was heavily influential in revolutionary socialist circles and along with Luxemburg's other work an important precursor to left communist theory.

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Rosa Luxemburg (5 March 1871 - 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Successively, she was a member of the Proletariat party, the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), the Spartacus League (Spartakusbund), and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Due to her pointed criticism of both the Leninist and the more moderate social democratic schools of socialism, Luxemburg has had a somewhat ambivalent reception among scholars and theorists of the political left. Born and raised in an assimilated Jewish family in Poland, she became a German citizen in 1897.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sanage Publishing House LLP
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9395741708
• ISBN 13: 9789395741705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 94