The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume IV

Part Four of a comprehensive collection of Rosa Luxemburg's writing

This 600-page volume of Luxemburg's Complete Works contains her writings "On Revolution" from 1906 to 1909--covering the 1905-06 Russian Revolution, one of the most important revolutions of modern times, and its aftermath. The volume contains numerous writings never before in available in English, such her pathbreaking essay, "Lessons of the Three Dumas," which presents a unique perspective on the transition socialism, her "Notes on the English Revolution" of the 1640's, and numerous writings on of the role of the mass strike in fomenting revolutionary transformation. All of the material in the volume consists of new translations, from German, Polish, and Russian originals. Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was a Polish-born Jewish revolutionary and one of the greatest theoretical minds of the European socialist movement. An activist in Germany and Poland, the author of numerous classic works, she participated in the founding of the German Communist Party and the Spartacist insurrection in Berlin in 1919. She was assassinated in January of that year and has become a hero of socialist, communist and feminist movements around the world.



Peter Hudis is a Lecturer at Oakton Community College. He coedited The Letters of Rosa luxemburg; The Rosa Luxemburg Reader; and Raya Dunayevskaya's Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx.