Rosa Luxemburg
Overview
- [[Revolutionary socialist]] thinker
- Part of the [[German Revolution]]
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Marxist critiques
- what are the limits to capitalist expansion
- expanded reproduction
- surplus value turning into active capital - disagrees that this is endless
- there are more than just workers and capitalists in a vacuum
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someone has to consume the leftover surplus value - who is it?
- social strata or societies that do not engage in capitalist production
- "[[Socialism or Barbarism]]"
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Capitalism containing inner contraditions that are seeds of its own self-destruction
- Luxemburg makes many accurate predictions off the back of this
- metabolism happens exponentially across the world stage
- Betrayed by the social democratic left
- Murdered
Rosa Luxemburg practiced a class struggle social democracy that struggled for radical reforms, and combined mass strikes and parliamentary action. Luxemburg practiced dialectics of party/movements, organisation/spontaneity, intellectual leadership/masses.
– [[Communicative Socialism/Digital Socialism]]
Sounds like much to say on [[Beyond the horizontal and the vertical]].
Anti-imperialism
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imperialism: political expression of process of accumulation of capitalism in competitive struggle over unspoiled remains of the non-capitalist world environment
- an international expression of capitalism
- colonialism is a form of imperialism
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capitalism drives imperialism and colonialism
- it’s the process of extracting commodities, resources and labour power from primitive social relations and absorbing it in to the capitalist wage system
- defile natural economy
- so many examples of capitalist-fueled imperialism
- the accumulation of capital knows only violence
See [[Anti-imperialism]].
Internationalism
- internationalist view of political and economic frameworks of Marxism
Works
- The Accumulation of Capital
- The Mass Strike
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Reform or Revolution
- rejecting Bernstein
- overtly reject capitalism through socialist revolution
- will be ignited through growing class consciousness
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believe in party structure
- democratic in how she views that transition
- believe in councils
- but have to actively and democratically involve majority of oppressed of working class
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Views on vanguardism
Her longing persists: a vanguard firm enough to gain power yet supple enough to wield it humanely.
– [[Vanguard Stacks: Self-Governing against Digital Colonialism]]
Misc
Her first loves were zoology and botany. ([[Red Rosa]])
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