Today is Rosa Luxemburg's 150th birthday. Brilliant Polish Marxist, interlocutor of Lenin, Spartacist leader, theorist of imperialism, revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg remains a burning image of radicalism and the intellectual life lived to the full. Her conceptualization of strike, of the relation of reform to revolution, and of the pitfalls of national consciousness remain as important now as they were when she was brutally murdered and disposed of by the intransigent German Right.
From Jacobin:
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