Lenin publishes a response to the Junius Pamphlet

She responds to objections to The Accumulation of Capital and clarifies her argument about capitalism’s relations with non-capitalist settings. The response was written while she was imprisoned and...

The manuscript later known as the Junius Pamphlet analyzes the war as a crisis of international social democracy. It condemns the collapse of workers’ internationalism but has itself been criticized...

The network adopts the Spartacus name and circulates political letters against the war. The group remains a small minority in a society where military command, censorship and nationalist...

The preface explains the purpose of the pamphlet and its criticism of social democracy’s support for the war. It frames the catastrophe as political and international, not simply a military conflict...

Printed in Switzerland as The Crisis of Social Democracy, the work circulates despite wartime censorship. The pseudonym “Junius” protects its author while placing the pamphlet in an international...

She is held in Berlin, later transferred to Wronki and Breslau, remaining imprisoned until the revolution in November 1918. Her imprisonment removes a leading voice from public organizing but...

From prison, Luxemburg welcomes the Russian Revolution and analyzes its international consequences. She views the overthrow of the tsar as a world-historical opening while fearing isolation if...

Luxemburg supports the revolution’s challenge to war and landlord power, while warning that restrictions on political freedoms threaten socialist self-government. Her criticism is later published...

Her manuscript praises the Bolsheviks’ break with imperial war and landlordism but criticizes the suppression of political pluralism and the restriction of democratic life. The argument insists that...

Her analysis of the Russian Revolution supports the overthrow of landlordism and the end of the war while warning that suppressing political freedoms can undermine socialist democracy. Because the...