Rosa Luxemburg’s 21st Century Legacy

Rosa Luxemburg is renowned for being the first post-Marx Marxist to argue that the accumulation of capital hinges not only on the internal temporal dynamics of particular capitalist societies but most of all on capitalism’s spatial penetration and destruction of the non-capitalist world. Her emphasis on capital’s inherent drive to consume and destroy indigenous communal…

Rosa Luxemburg was murdered almost 100 years ago. Yet, she seems more alive to our age and its concerns than many contemporary public intellectuals and social theorists. Her immensely multi-layered and highly creative mind, combined with an unyielding rejection of oppression and domination in its myriad shapes and disguises, echoes from her time to ours.…