What is an Intellectual and What Can an Intellectual Do at Present?: Keep Rosa Luxemburg in Mind in advance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiong Min ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rosa Luxemburg

Book Reviews

Theoria ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (163) ◽  
pp. 106-118
Author(s):  
Jean-Numa Ducange ◽  
Camila Vergara ◽  
Talat Ahmed ◽  
Christian Høgsbjerg
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
National Liberation ◽  
Rosa Luxemburg

The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg. Volume III. Political Writings, 1: On Revolution 1893–1905, by Peter Hudis, Axel Fair-Schulz and William A. Pelz (eds). London: Verso, 2019. 592 pp.In the Red Corner: The Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui by Mike Gonzalez. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2019. 231 pp.Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation and the Limits of Modernism, by Ben Conisbee Baer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 384 pp.Here to Stay – Here to Fight: A Race Today Anthology, by Paul Field, Robin Bunce, Leila Hassan and Margaret Peacock (eds). London: Pluto Press, 2019. 304 pp.

Building Power to Change the World

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Muldoon
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
The Political ◽  
European Politics ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
The World ◽  
First World ◽  
Rosa Luxemburg

The German council movements arose through mass strikes and soldier mutinies towards the end of the First World War. They brought down the German monarchy, founded several short-lived council republics, and dramatically transformed European politics. This book reconstructs how participants in the German council movements struggled for a democratic socialist society. It examines their attempts to democratize politics, the economy, and society through building powerful worker-led organizations and cultivating workers’ political agency. Drawing from the practices of the council movements and the writings of theorists such as Rosa Luxemburg, Anton Pannekoek, and Karl Kautsky, this book returns to their radical vision of a self-determining society and their political programme of democratization and socialization. It presents a powerful argument for renewed attention to the political theories of this historical period and for their ongoing relevance today.

Rosa Luxemburg

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Brie ◽  
Jörn Schütrumpf
Keyword(s):  
Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg: A life

1989 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 643-644
Author(s):  
Iris Marion Young
Keyword(s):  
Rosa Luxemburg

Occupation of the Volksbühne or the missing figure of the proletariat

Maska ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (200s3) ◽  
pp. 110-118
Author(s):  
Andrej Mirčev
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Tate Modern ◽  
General Opinion ◽  
Rosa Luxemburg

Abstract When in early 2015 it was announced that long-time director of Volksbühne Frank Castorf would be succeeded by the curator and director of Tate Modern Chris Dercon, theatre circles across Germany were infuriated. The general opinion was that this decision would lead to a radical deviation from the production model and the politics of Berlin’s famous left-oriented theatre. In the autumn of 2017, after the artistic group Staub zu Glitzer squatted the building declaring a collective directorship and turning the Volksbühne into a performative-discursive stage for discussions on social inequalities and gentrification, the situation was further antagonized. However, the occupation lasted only a couple of days as the squatters were soon evicted by police. In an essay ‘Towards the liberation of theatre’ written in the early 60s, Darko Suvin derives the thesis of socialization as that which is ‘truly revolutionary’. Suvin’s intention was to formulate a production model which ‘would be socialist in its structure and tendencies’ and aligned with the ideology of self-management. Using this concept, my text aims to test its epistemic potentiality to reflect on the squatting of Volksbühne. Is it plausible to invoke socialization in an attempt to articulate a discourse critical of commodification and precarisation? Can the occupation of the building on Rosa Luxemburg Square be regarded as a contemporary example of self-management?

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