The National Question: Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg

by Horace B. Davis (Editor)

Provocative writings on the question of national self-determination and its relationship with socialism.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, History, Theory, Audiobook, Philosophy

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

Reviews

[sara]

muy interesante… flipo con el análisis histórico que tiene y la facilidad con la que lo transmite

[Ruya Hazeyen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Disagree with Ms. Luxemburg’s takes on self determination

[Roger Cottrell]

When I wrote my symapthetic 5 part TV documentary on Northern Ireland Loyalism this was my point of departure. Luxembourg KNEW that the Polish Left (and particularly the Jews) would be worse off in an independent Poland and was proved right. This may seem a controversial position in the light of what happened to Poland under first the Nazis and then Stalinism but Luxembourg was murdered in 1919 and didn't know this. She didn't see Stalinism's wilful collusion in the Nazi butchery of the Warsaw Commune of 1944, the facile apology for this in THE NEW STATESMAN and even Isaac Deutscher's writings, Gireck's attempts to buy off the Polish working class and what happened to it, the rise of Solidarity as a legitimate political union nor its sorry degeneration (post Jaruljelski's coup) into a bourgeois restorationist party. But she'd have recognised Walenca's mix of nationalism, Catholic fundamentalism and anti-semitism for what it was and understood exactly why the former Communist Party in Poland now gets more vites than at any time since 1944

[Aivaras Žukauskas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Controversial even from today's standpoint, but not without its points.

[Jack]

I'm not qualified to give my opinion on much said since I lack the knowledge on the subject so I shall not be rating this text, but nevertheless it was interesting and I enjoyed it.

[Leonardo]

Los ensayos relevantes de Rosa Luxemburgo está recolectados en Rosa Luxemburg, The National Question, ed. Horace Davis (New york: Monthly Review Press, 1976).

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[Bandar · Rating 4 out of 5]

rich and deep. incredible detail and vision for humanity. RIP