Luxemburg begins teaching political economy to party members

Tsarist authorities imprison Luxemburg during the revolutionary upheaval; she is later released on bail after family intervention and health concerns. The episode exposes the coercive machinery of...

Drawing on the Russian Revolution of 1905, Luxemburg presents mass strikes as both political weapons and schools of collective self-government. She challenges the view that union leaders or party...

Luxemburg draws on the Russian Revolution to show how economic strikes, political protest and organization can interact. She challenges a neat separation between “spontaneous” workers and party...

The mass-strike debate sets party and union leaders against workers’ initiative. Luxemburg warns that a leadership focused only on protecting existing organizations can leave workers unprepared for...

She teaches political economy and Marx’s Capital to party members, including working-class activists. This work treats socialist education as a tool for building political understanding beyond...

Research and lecture notes from her years at the party school examine social forms before and outside capitalism. These studies widened her historical scope beyond a Europe-only account of economic...

At the Stuttgart Socialist Congress she works with Lenin, Martov and others on a resolution calling workers to oppose war and use crisis to advance socialist change. The resolution later becomes a...

In a series of articles she argues against treating national self-determination as a universal socialist slogan and favors democratic autonomy within wider political structures. Her critique...

Her lecture course examines commodity production, industrialization and the effects of capitalism on non-capitalist social groups. Much of the manuscript remained unpublished in her lifetime, so later...

The series argues that national self-determination is not a universal formula capable of resolving workers’ political problems. It is a major intervention in socialist debates, but also a point of...