Rosa
Luxemburg A Revolutionary for Our Times Stephen Eric Bronner
1997
Comparative Politics, Political Theory, History - European
Paperback: $18.95 SH
ISBN: 978-0-271-02505-6
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Rosa
Luxemburg (1871-1919) was Polish, Jewish, and a woman in an international
socialist movement dominated by Germans, gentiles, and men. For Luxemburg,
there was no real socialism without democracy and no real democracy
without socialism. In this biography Stephen Eric Bronner establishes
Luxemburg's legacy to contemporary socialist theory and practice.
"Resurrecting the legacy of one who maintained 'Freedom is always
and exclusively freedom for those who think differently,' Bronner
has written an admirable and pertinent book which contributes to
debates among democratic socialists as to 'the way forward.'"- Irish
Quarterly Review
"This small booklet is a useful and sympathetic synthesis of Rosa
Luxenburg's life and work, and their relevance for present-day politics.
Her ideas on nationalism and internationalism, reform and revolution,
imperialism and war, democracy and mass strike are aptly presented
in a lively and non-academic way. . . . The greatest merit of the
book is its partisan character; its decision to approach Rosa Luxemburg
not as a closed chapter in the History of the Labor Movement, but
as a source of inspiration for the present struggles, for a model
of socialist democracy beyond bureaucracy and reformism, Stalin
and-or Noske."-New German Critique
"Stephen Eric Bronner's book attempts to set a great revolutionary's
thought in its historical context and also make the questions which
she raised relevant to the concerns of the present. . . . Bronner's
valuable book [is] the accessible lead into Luxemburg's enigmatic
thinking and being which we have needed for some time."-New
Political Science
Stephen
Eric Bronner is Professor of Political Science and Comparative
Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of, most recently, Moments of Decision: Political History and Crises of Radicalism
and Socialism Unbound and the editor of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg.