Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German revolutionary Marxist whose The Accumulation of Capital extended Marx's economic analysis and whose Reform or Revolution debated the strategy of the socialist movement. Her passionate defense of spontaneous mass action against Leninist party discipline remains the touchstone of left-communist thought. She was murdered by right-wing soldiers.
Works
- The Accumulation of CapitalMarxist critique of capitalism's expansion and imperialism's role in colonial accumulation
- Reform or RevolutionArgument that revolution, not reform, is the path to socialist transformation
- The Mass StrikeAnalysis of spontaneous working-class strikes as engines of revolutionary change
- Letters from PrisonPrison letters revealing personal reflections and political commitments
- The Russian RevolutionCritique of the Bolshevik Revolution from an anti-authoritarian socialist perspective
- The Junius PamphletWartime essay analyzing imperialism and the origins of World War One