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“... and both died in Paris. Burke predicted that the French Revolution would end in despotism, and Rosa Luxemburg predicted the same of the Russian Revolution. But wait: they have more in common than that. Luxemburg’s favourite pseudonym was ‘Junius’, which, intriguingly enough, was also the pseudonym ...”

“... were themselves divided, and another instructive investigation is of the widening rift between Rosa Luxemburg and her group, representing the ‘assimilated’ intellectuals, and the Bund, the organisation of the working masses. We hear again of the Bund in the later 1930s, when ideas from Nazi Germany were worsening racialist feeling. It was one of ...”

“... later in London, Robert Kuczynski knew many prominent left-wingers, including Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, founders of the KPD. But his own position on the radical spectrum was unclear, a fault Ursula swore to correct in her own life, just as she vowed to be better than her mother, an artist whose main talent was for ...”

“... expert, pornography obsessive, pyromaniac and champion farter who knew Goebbels, Stalin and Rosa Luxemburg, and who urged Gavrilo Princip to pull the trigger. Nowhere Man (2002) was billed as a series of stories (or ‘fantasies’), despite the recurring presence of Hemon’s alter ego, the hapless Jozef Pronek. A story in the linked collection ...”

“... this, he was closer to German revisionists like Eduard Bernstein and Karl Kautsky than to Lenin or Rosa Luxemburg. But unlike Kautsky, Jaurès didn’t think that the revolutionary objective mattered above all; nor did he accept Bernstein’s view that socialism should see reform as an end in itself. So-called bourgeois institutions could be ...”

“... wave’ of capitalist expansion around the Belle Epoque, for example. Mason tracks the attempts by Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin, Rudolf Hilferding and Eugen Varga to explain this apparent thriving of what they considered a moribund system. For Luxemburg, the collapse would finally come once everywhere on the globe was pulled ...”

“... since 1997. Leftists from more than twenty similar organisations throughout Europe – the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Germany, Espaces Marx in France – show up every week to give talks. An office press, Nissos, publishes several volumes of party scholarship every year. Analyses produced by the institute’s members – ‘The Political Economy ...”

“... the hateful guilt borne by some socialist intellectuals, including heroes such as Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, Benjamin and Brecht, for their lying and distortions wittingly performed in the names of freedom and the masses’. I have curtailed the quotation, but the gist of it is that if you can believe in ‘actually existing socialism’, you can ...”

“... defined. But readers are expected to digest political references – to, say, the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg, the student uprisings of May 1968, and the deaths of Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof – entirely without contextual comment. Here and there we are told that a work is ‘extraordinary’ or ‘a breakthrough’ without being allowed to see ...”

“... façade.12 The Nazis demolished Mies’s abstract brick monument to the martyred communists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht13; they also proposed knocking down his Stuttgart development to build a complex for the Army High Command. A propagandistic collage transformed the site into an Arab village, full of thawbs and camels. The ...”

“... he ends up in with women to the way Karl Liebknecht ended up, ‘murdered in prison alongside Rosa Luxemburg after their bid for power failed in 1919’. But Mark seems so pathetic, his understanding of what he’s doing so slight that the comparison makes him ridiculous. Each time I read the novel, I put it down at this point: I couldn’t stomach ...”

“... the fall of fascism in 1974, there is no red thread of Ariadne, to paraphrase Clara Zetkin on Rosa Luxemburg, to be followed between the Sorbonne commune and the digital and cybernetic age. We are left to contemplate mainly the ironies of history – Deutscher’s preferred trope – and the subtle, ironic, even surreptitious influences of ...”

“... remarks, given that Mies had designed the Monument to the November Revolution commemorating Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, ‘both of whom had been murdered by the Berlin police’. This implies that, like the monument, the October series constitutes a commemoration of murdered socialists. But Richter was not intentionally commemorating the ...”

“... Parliament: eighty years later, Benn could not even get him onto a postage-stamp, at a time when Rosa Luxemburg adorned West German mail. Such treatment, it might be argued, is not without all justice. For in a comparative perspective, did not the English Civil War – however traumatic at the time – prove in the end to be the least significant of the ...”

“... pick out stray instances of proto-ecological thinking in prominent inheritors of Marx’s thought. Rosa Luxemburg in The Accumulation of Capital (1913) argued that capitalism couldn’t expand without dragging into the orbit of ‘the commodity economy’ ever more of ‘the natural economy’ outside capitalist exchange, and Horkheimer and Adorno in The ...”