Reform or revolution

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Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or revolution (1974, Gordon Press)

53 pages

English language

Published Dec. 13, 1974 by Gordon Press.

ISBN:
978-0-87968-069-5
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OCLC Number:
1556737

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Up there with The State and Revolution by Lenin as a pretty masterful refutation of opportunist (and what we might call today "radlib") attempts to co-opt the socialist project and Marxist theory specifically.

The ideas in this pamphlet are as important today as they were in Luxemburg's for clarifying intent and defending the movement from distractions that masquerade as critical additions or edits to certain fundamental ideas in the Marxist traditio.

For example, Luxemburg writes of Bernstein (the opportunist who is the focus of Reform or Revolution, just as Kautsky was for Lenin's State and Revolution):

"To him, ‘capitalist’ is not an economic unit but a fiscal unit. And ‘capital’ is for him not a factor of production but simply a certain quantity of money.

Here too, the theoretic base of his economic error is his “popularisation” of socialism. For this is what he does. By transporting the concept of …

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Subjects

  • Bernstein, Edward, 1850-1932.
  • Socialism.
  • Militarism.