- The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
- Concerning Morocco
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1911
The duty of Social Democracy is not to reassure public opinion, but to do the very reverse, to rouse it and warn it against the dangers lying dormant in it such adventures in international politics today. It is not enough for us to rely on the pacific intentions of some capitalist clique as a factor in achieving peace; we can only count on the resistance of the enlightened masses. By obeying the order to keep our peace, incidentally, we would be seen to be falling in with the wishes of the rulers of the Moroccan policy.
- Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1875
Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
- Either Or
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1916
It is a question of either-or! Either we nakedly and shamelessly betray the International or we take the International in deadly seriousness and attempt to extend it into a firm stronghold, a bulwark, of the international socialist proletariat and of world peace.
- The Elections to the National Assembly
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
The great confrontation between capital and labour will determine the course of future history and, in its final result, admits of no other decision than the destruction of capitalist rule and the triumph of socialism.
- Erfurt Program
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Program was adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the SPD congress at Erfurt in 1891.
- House of Cards
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1919
Again and again the revolution will bring to the fore the basic question: the general reckoning between labour and capital. And this reckoning is a world historical conflict between two mortal enemies which can be fought out only in a long power struggle, eye to eye, hand to hand.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Letter to Bracke
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1875
Karl Marx comments on the unity programme (Gotha programme) of the German Democratic Workers Party and the People's Party.
- The National Assembly
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
Today it is not a question of democracy or dictatorship. The question that history has placed on the agenda is: bourgeois democracy or socialist democracy?
- The Next Step
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1910
A decision must be made as to whether German Social Democracy, which is supported by the strongest trade-union organization and the greatest army of voters in the world, can bring about a mass action (which has been done at various times with great success in little Belgium, in Italy, in Austria-Hungary, in Sweden - not to mention Russia), or whether in Germany a trade-union organization numbering two million members and a powerful, well-disciplined party is just as incapable of giving birth to an effective mass action at the crucial moment as were the French trade unions, which had been crippled by anarchist confusion, and the French Socialist party, which had been weakened by internal disputes.
- Oh! How -- German is this Revolution!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
- On the Spartacus Programme
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
For us the conquest of power will not be effected at one blow. It will be a progressive act, for we shall progressively occupy all the positions. of the capitalist state, defending tooth and nail each one that we seize.
- Order Prevails in Berlin
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1919
Rosa Luxemburg's last article, written just before she was murdered.
She concludes with the words: "You foolish lackeys! Your 'order' is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:
I was, I am, I shall be!"
- Our Program and the Political Situation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
- Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1852
Marx exposes the unseemly methods used by the Prussian police state against the communist movement.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
- Spartacist uprising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A general strike (and the armed battles accompanying it) in Germany from January 5 to January 12, 1919.
- What are the Leaders Doing?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1919
It is a revolution with all its externally chaotic development, with its alternating ebb and flow, with momentary surges towards the seizure of power and equally momentary recessions of the revolutionary breakers. And the revolution is making its way step by step through all these apparent zig-zag movements and is marching forward.
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