The complete works of Rosa Luxemburg. Volume III, Political writings 1 : on revolution - 1897-1905

Rosa Luxemburg's theoretical masterpiece This collection is the first of three volumes of the Complete Works devoted to the central theme of Rosa Luxemburg’s life and work— revolution . Spanning the years 1897 to the end of 1905, they contain speeches, articles, and essays on the strikes, protests, and political debates that culminated in the 1905 Russian Revolution—one of the most important social upheavals of modern times. Luxemburg’s near-daily articles and reports during 1905 on the ongoing revolution (which comprises the bulk of this volume) shed new light on such issues as the relation of spontaneity and organization, the role of national minorities in social revolution, and the inseparability ofthe struggle for socialism from revolutionary democracy. We become witness to Luxemburg’s effort to respond to the impulses, challenges, and ideas arising from a living revolutionary process, which in turn becomes the source of much of her subsequent political theory—such as her writings on the mass strike, her strident internationalism, and her insistence that revolutionary struggle never take its eyes off of the need to transform the human personality. Virtually all of these writings appear in English for the first time (translated from both German and Polish) and many have only recently been identified as having been written by Luxemburg. This First Volume Of Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, Entitled Economic Writings I, Will Contain Some Of Luxemburg's Most Important Writings On The Globalization Of Capital, Wage Labor, Imperialism And Pre-capitalist Economic Formations, Most Of Which Have Never Before Appeared In English. In Addition To Including A New Translation Of Her Doctoral Dissertation, The Industrial Development Of Poland, It Will Include The First Complete English Translation Of Her Introduction To Political Economy, Which Explores (among Other Issues) The Impact Of Capitalist Commodity Production And Industrialization Upon Non-capitalist Social Strata In The Developing World. The Volume Will Also Include Ten Recently Discovered Manuscripts, All Of Which Will Appear In English For The First Time-- The Second Volume ... Contains A New English Translation Of The Accumulation Of Capital ... One Of The Most Important Works Ever Composed On Capitalism's Incessant Drive For Self-expansion And The Integral Connection Between Capitalism And Imperialism ... It Also Contains Her Book-length Response To Her Critics, The Accumulation Of Capital ... An Anti-critique. Taken Together, These Two Works Represent One Of The Most Important Marxist Studies Of The Globalization Of Capital-- Volume 1. Economic Writings 1 / Edited By Peter Hudis ; Translated By David Fernbach, Joseph Fracchia And George Shriver -- Volume 2. Economic Writings 2 / Edited By Peter Hudis And Paul Le Blanc ; Translated By Nicholas Gray And George Shriver -- Volume 3. Political Writings 1 : On Revolution, 1897-1905 / Edited By Peter Hudis, Axel Fair-schulz, And William A. Pelz. Edited By Peter Hudis ; Translated By David Fernbach, Joseph Fracchia And George Shriver. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Translated From The German. This collection is the third of three volumes of the Complete Works devoted to the central theme of Rosa Luxemburg’s life and work—revolution. Spanning the years 1897 to the end of 1905, they contain speeches, articles, and essays on the strikes, protests, and political debates that culminated in the 1905 Russian Revolution—one of the most important social upheavals of modern times. Luxemburg's corruscating politics texts on the 1905 Revolution