“... East derived almost all of its cultural and political inspiration from the West (‘Marx, Engels, Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin were all Western intellectuals’), he is unwilling even to mention the role of Western powers in the swift decline of the Arab lands they liberated from Ottoman rule. Here is his mechanistic explanation: ‘In the 20th century, an ...”

“... at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes’ – ‘socialism or barbarism’, as Rosa Luxemburg put it. A century later, what is our predicament? Though the ruling classes talk of climate crisis, Malm says, their actions betray them:They are not perturbed by the smell from the blazing trees. They do not worry at the sight of islands ...”

“... Polish independence might be a consequence, but it was not their central aim. A few years later, Rosa Luxemburg – also Polish-Jewish by origin – would declare that Polish independence was ‘a utopian mirage, a delusion of the workers, to distract them from their class struggle’. Piłsudski’s response was to establish pro-independence Yiddish ...”

“... the aporia’ that Rose proceeds to tell.Rahel Varnhagen, salonnière and belletrist; Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary and Marxist theorist; Hannah Arendt, immigrant to America and liberal darling: each, Rose believes, lived and worked through a critical moment in German history, and all three were ‘especially qualified witnesses of the ...”

“... to Biehl, he was looking for ways to recast the ‘apocalyptic binary’ first enunciated by Rosa Luxemburg. (Biehl’s title is an intentional echo of Luxemburg’s ‘Socialism or Barbarism’.) He ‘restated it as a choice between anarchism and extinction’. In the 1960s Bookchin helped Puerto Rican squatters ...”

“... the 15th volume of the Complete Edition in his 90th year and dedicated it to the memory of Rosa Luxemburg, he decreed that the 16th and last should be an un-retouched facsimile of the first (and later completely revised) edition of Geist der Utopie. Theological initiatives were largely responsible for the short-lived discovery of Bloch in the USA ...”

“... left) and tumbles through the 18th century to get to Marx. A short glide from there brings us to Rosa Luxemburg, Trotsky and Lenin, whereupon the family broadens out: on the one hand, Mao and Stalin (bad ‘state capitalism’); on the other – and who would have guessed? – ‘Attlee, CND, Ben Bella’. At length we arrive at the authentic heir to ...”

“... theoretical culture. He had searched in vain for a French equivalent of Labriola, or Gramsci, or Rosa Luxemburg, and explained their absence both by the distrust which the French worker movement naturally felt for an intellectual class which had so easily been assimilated to a supposedly revolutionary bourgeoisie and by the general and long-standing ...”

“... impressionistic, romantic and even metaphysical influences’ admired the ‘second-rate’ Rosa Luxemburg? It’s probably true, as far as it goes, that increasing awareness among scholars of feminist citational practice has something to do with the current prominence of both. Yes, women do like reading other women, and seeing them properly ...”

“... asked why I would opt for something ‘so relentlessly unserious’. At the end of a tutorial on Rosa Luxemburg, the only woman thinker on our course, another professor, some 45 years my senior, blocked my exit and went in for the kiss. (An error of judgment in more ways than one: I was also lusting after girls my age.) During one lecture, on Hegel I ...”

“... of land and mineral wealth attendant on the European sacking of the Americas. In the same way, Rosa Luxemburg, Marx’s first great legatee in the theory of crisis, insisted in the Accumulation of Capital (1913) that imperial expansion across space must accompany capital accumulation over time. Without the prising open of new markets in the ...”

“... grounds’. The Ukrainians are venomously written out of the script, and he quotes Rosa Luxemburg to the effect that their nationalism was ‘the ridiculous farce of a few university professors and students’. For the other peoples, ‘the choice was not between dependence and independence, but between dependence on Moscow and dependence ...”

“... in Africa is a perhaps irreversible decline towards that capitalism-produced barbarism of which Rosa Luxemburg warned, gradually engulfing most of the subcontinent.’ Leys doubts whether the civil and political practices of pre-colonial African societies – or indeed any kind of democratic practice – can replace ‘the botched modern ...”

“... in their anti-Bolshevism and taste for vengeance. (He had earlier acquiesced in the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the leaders of the short-lived Bolshevik uprising in Berlin, deaths which elicited from Weber the memorably heartless response: ‘They called up the street, and the street has dispatched them.’) In Munich, Red Terror ...”

“... costs.’ (The Spartacist rising in Germany had taken place earlier the same month; Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were executed on 15 January.) That night troops began to enter the city (Glaswegian soldiers were confined to barracks, just in case), machine guns and a Howitzer were soon positioned on the roofs of the buildings around George Square, and six ...”