Rosa Luxemburg (Life&Times)
Publisher: Haus Publishers Ltd.
Published: April 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781905791293
Subjects: Biography: general; Marxism & Communism; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Political
Description: "In a world in which capitalism is presented as all that exists, the writer, speaker and agitator Rosa Luxemburg - murdered in Berlin by an unholy alliance of Right and Left in 1919 - is the last heroine of revolutionary socialism. Did Luxemburg, a contemporary of Lenin and Trotsky, offer a genuine alternative, a libertarian and democratic socialism that might have saved 20th century Europe from the scourges of depression, dictatorship and war? Or was she the lifelong victim of an illusion, a misreading of history that led her inexorably to a bloody death?" "This biography takes a fresh view, re-examining Luxemburg's tempestuous career and complex personal life, posing new questions about her politics and her dream of socialism."--BOOK JACKET.