Understanding Rosa Luxemburg’s Life and Work | Peter Hudis

An interview with Peter Hudis, editor of the Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, in cooperation with the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.

Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) is widely regarded as one of the most creative writers of modern socialism and the foremost female theoretician of European radicalism. Her wide-ranging and incisive works, which include studies on capitalism’s inherent drive for global expansion, the relation between spontaneity and organization, and the inseparability of democracy and socialism, have made her a pole of attraction for theorists and activists around the world. Her fiercely independent intellect and uncompromising defense of human liberty speaks more powerfully to our era than to any other.

At the same time, however, a great deal of her work—over 75%—has yet to be translated into English. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg is a series that is, in stages, brings together the contributions of this remarkable thinker by translating all her works. It will be published in fourteen volumes, each with comprehensive annotations and introductions. See all the works, so far, here https://www.versobooks.com/series_col...