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Rosa Luxemburg

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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As an economist and political theorist, Rosa Luxemburg created a body of work that still resonates powerfully today. Born in Poland in 1871, she became a revolutionary leader in Berlin, publishing works including ‘Reform or Revolution’ and The Accumulation of Capital. In this account of her short yet extraordinary life, Dana Mills examines Luxemburg’s writings, including her own correspondence, to reveal a woman who was fierce in professional battles and loving in personal relationships.What is her legacy today, a hundred years after her assassination in Berlin in 1919 at the age of 47? Luxemburg’s emphasis on humanity, equality and her insistence on revolution gave coherence, as this compelling biography illustrates, to a fraught life story and a colossal economic and political legacy.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-08-10
Mått130 x 203 x 13 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Lives
Antal sidor208
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781789143270

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From today’s perspective, it is not unreasonable to suggest – as Dana Mills does in Rosa Luxemburg, a compact and admiring biography – that she is a potential role model to the woke generation, an icon to the feminist, environmental, equality and anticolonialist rebellions. Luxemburg is alive and well and speaking at a street meeting near you . . . [Mills] sees “the energy, resilience and humanism of Rosa Luxemburg re-emerging as a counter-force” in our times . . . Luxemburg deserves better than past categorizations. She was a unique revolutionary, self-made and self-critical, seductive and humane. You will meet the real Rosa here, and it’s a pleasure.