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Publication Date:
2008-03-07
ISBN:
978-1-905791-29-3
Format:
Paperback
Territory:
World
Category:
Biography, History
Pages:
176
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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 from scourges of depression, dictatorship and war? Or was she the lifelong victim of an illusion, a misreading of history that let her inexorably to a bloody death?
This biography takes a fresh view, re-examining Luxemburgs tempestuous career and complex personal life, posing new questions about her politics and her dream of socialism.
Harry Harmer is the author of Tom Paine: The Life of Revolutionary. Among his other books are Martin Luther King, The Longman Companion of the Labour Party and The Longman Companion to Slavery, Emancipation and Civil Rights.