Tag Archives: Rosa Luxemburg

Chris Horner: “Hannah Arendt And The Lost Treasure Of The American Revolution”

Posted on January 28, 2020 by

“The public space of freedom was not preserved by either of the two revolutions mainly discussed in On Revolution, and we should include their failure alongside that of the Bolsheviks when we read Arendt’s appreciation of the fact that Rosa Luxemburg ‘was far more afraid of a deformed revolution than an unsuccessful one’”.

Posted in agonism, Arendt, democracy, founding, freedom, governance, Nota Bene, revolution, tragic politics

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Paul Le Blanc: “Rosa Luxemburg and the actuality of revolution”

Posted on November 17, 2019 by

“If we take these ideas of Luxemburg, Lukács, and Gramsci seriously, we must realize that all of them were making reference to a context that no longer exists in 2019.  A hundred years ago there existed a substantial global labor movement, profoundly influenced by the theory of historical materialism, and with a dynamic and influential left wing infused with the sense of the actuality of revolution.  That was obliterated between the First World War and the twilight of the twentieth century. Something like it remains to be rebuilt.”

Posted in anarchism, freedom, Nota Bene, revolution, rights

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Ines Schwerdtner: “One, Two, Many Rosa Luxemburgs”

Posted on January 15, 2019 by

“On the 100th anniversary of her murder, Rosa Luxemburg’s incredible life provides us with a model — not necessarily of what to do, but of how to do it.”

Posted in anarchism, gender, Nota Bene, revolution, the Left

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