Capturing the Spirit of Struggle: Rosa Luxemburg on Literature
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 2022-09-27

A lecture by Helen C. Scott examining the central role creative literature and the arts, more broadly, played in the development of Rosa Luxemburg's dialectical materialism and her vision of human liberation.


Helen C. Scott is Professor of English at the University of Vermont, where she teaches contemporary global anglophone literatures. Her publications include Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization: Fictions of Independence (Ashgate 2006), The Essential Rosa Luxemburg (Haymarket 2008), and Shakespeare’s Tempest and Capitalism: The Storm of History (Routledge, 2019). She is on the board of Verso’s Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, and is co-editing Volume 5.