Luxemburg begins a sustained study of non-capitalist societies

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...

Her teaching at the SPD school develops material later used in her economic writings. The courses bring complex political economy to rank-and-file activists and treat education as a means to build...

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 Much of the manuscript remained unpublished in her lifetime, so later...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...

She advocates mass demonstrations and strikes against Prussia’s unequal three-class voting system. Her conflict with Karl Kautsky deepens as party leadership seeks to contain street mobilization and...