Rosa Luxemburg Library MIA: Marxist Writers: Rosa Luxemburg “Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party – however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of ‘justice’ but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when ‘freedom’ becomes a special privilege.” The Russian Revolution Biography Works 1894: What Are the Origins of May Day? 1896: The Polish Question at the International Congress in London 1896: Social Democracy and the National Struggles in Turkey 1898: The Industrial Development of Poland 1898: Opportunism and the art of the possible 1898: Speeches to Stuttgart Congress 1899: A question of tactics 1899: Speech to the Hanover Congress 1899: The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case 1899: Militia and Militarism 1900: In Defense of Nationality 1900: Reform or Revolution 1901: The Socialist Crisis in France 1901: To the National Council of the French Worker’s Party 1902: Martinique 1902: The Eight Hour Day at the Party Congress 1903: An anti-clerical policy of Socialism 1903: In Memory of the Proletarian Party 1903: Marxist Theory and the Proletariat 1903: Stagnation and Progress of Marxism 1903: Lassalle and the Revolution 1904: In the Storm 1904: Social Democracy and Parliamentarism 1904: Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy [aka Leninism or Marxism?] 1905: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement 1905: The Revolution in Russia 1905: Socialism and the Churches 1906: The Mass Strike 1906: Riot and Revolution 1906: Blanquism and Social Democracy 1907: Two Methods of Trade-Union Policy 1908: 25th anniversary of Marx’s death 1908: The First May as a Day of Working-Class Struggle 1908: On the Question of Budget Approval 1908: The Party School 1909: The National Question 1909: Revolutionary Hangover 1909: Special Problems of Poland 1910: The Next Step 1910: Attrition or Struggle? (Part 2, Part 3, concluding remarks: alternate translation) 1910: Theory & Practice [A polemic against Comrade Kautsky’s theory of the Mass Strike] 1911: Concerning Morocco 1911: Peace Utopias 1911: Mass Action 1911: An Amusing Misunderstanding 1911: To the Unity Conference of the Socialist Organisations in Manchester 1912: Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle 1912: The Fallen Women of Liberalism 1912: What Now? 1913: The Idea of May Day on the March 1913: Down With Reformist Illusions—Hail the Revolutionary Class Struggle! 1913: The Political Mass Strike 1913: Lassalle’s Legacy 1913: The Accumulation of Capital 1914: German SDP and the War (with Karl Liebknecht, Franz Mehring and Clara Zetkin) 1915: The Accumulation of Capital: An Anti-Critique 1915: Rebuilding the International 1915: The Junius Pamphlet (The Crisis of Social Democracy) 1915: Theses on the Tasks of International Social-Democracy 1916: Either/Or 1916: Dog Politics 1917: The Old Mole 1918: The Russian Revolution 1918: Life of Korolenko 1918: The Russian tragedy 1918: Oh! How – German is this Revolution! 1918: The Beginning 1918: A Duty of Honor (Alternate Translation: Against Capital Punishment) 1918: The National Assembly 1918: A Call to the Workers of the World (Alternate Translation: Manifesto of the German Spartacists) 1918: The Acheron in Motion 1918: Five Letters from Prison 1916–1918: Letters from Prison to Sophie Liebknecht 1918: The Socialisation of Society (Alternate Translation: What is Bolshevism?) 1918: What does the Spartacus League Want? 1918: The Elections to the National Assembly 1918: Our Program and the Political Situation (Alternate Translation: On the Spartacus Programme) 1919: What are the Leaders Doing? 1919: House of Cards 1919: Order Prevails in Berlin Posthumous publications: 1922: Letters to Karl and Luise Kautsky from 1896 to 1918 (PDF) Introduction and Postscript and Appendix by Luise Kautsky Acknowledgements Many of Luxemburg’s works are still in copyright as they have been translated within the last thirty odd years and we are therefore most grateful to a number of publishers who have allowed us to place her works on the Marxist Internet Archive. We must thank Bob Looker and Random House for sixteen articles in Rosa Luxemburg, Selected Political Writings, edited and introduced by Robert Looker, 1974 and to Dick Howard and Monthly Review Press for six articles from Selected Political Writings, Rosa Luxemburg, 1971 together with eight articles from The National Question: Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg, edited and introduced by the late Horace B. Davis, 1976. None of the interesting and informative background material in the introductions to these books is on the MIA and readers will have to find them in print form. Dick Howard has pointed out that he has updated and reworked the materials in the Introduction to the 1971 book as a chapter in his work The Marxian Legacy (2nd edition, 1988). We would also like to thank Peter Hudis and News and Letters for permission to publish Theory and Practice. We are also very grateful to Tessa DeCarlo who has given us permission to put her translation of The Industrial Development of Poland, originally published by Campaigner Publications in 1977. She has slightly revised and edited this version. Finally Monthly Review Press have produced a new edition of Luxemburg’s works, The Rosa Luxemburg Reader, 2004, ISBN 1-5837-103-X. Edited by Hudis & Anderson, it contains, in addition to a scholarly introduction and improved versions of some already published works, some totally new translations by Passmore and Anderson including a number of writings on women, slavery and the Russian Social Democracy. There is also a fine collection of her letters, all new translations called Letters of Rosa Luxemburg produced by Humanities in 1998. Both of these are not available online but are worth reading. There is a vast corpus of her work in German. The MIA would be delighted to publish any previously untranslated material. We have also listed above some of her English copyrighted works, in an attempt make people aware of the number of these we need to get online. Critiques of Luxemburg Search Luxemburg Archive With the Exact Phrase: With at least one of words: Marxist Writers | eBooks for Luxemburg Last updated on 16 October 2023