Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution

Dunayevskaya, Raya
Publisher:  Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands
Year First Published:  {12407 Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution ROSA LUXEMBURG WOMENS LIBERATION AND MARXS PHILOSOPHY OF REVOLUTION Dunayevskaya, Raya Humanities Press Atlantic Highlands Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence." 1981 1982 234pp BC12407-WomensLiberation.jpg B Book 0-391-02793-X HX273.L83D86 1982 355.4 Dunayevskaya writes: By mid-August, when Luxemburg was working on The Mass Strike, the Party and the Trade Unions, it was clear that, far from the pamphlet's being restricted to the topics in the title, Luxemburg was, in fact, beginning to question not just the conservative trade union leadership, but the relation of Marxist leadership to spontaneity. She had always been highly responsive to proletarian acts of spontaneity. What was different this time was that the 1905 Revolution had disclosed a totally new relationship also to Marxist leadership. The most exciting phenomenon was that the so-called backward Russian worrkers had proved themselves far in advance of those in the technologically advanced countries, particularly Germany. Moreover, the Russian Revolution was not just a national happening. In its impact on both East and West, it had displayed an elemental force and reason of world scope. Luxemburg at once began working out its application to Germany. <br>It a word, spontaneity did not mean just instinctive action as against conscious direction. Quite the contrary: spontaneity was a driving force, not only of revolution but of the vanguard leadership, keeping it left. As Luxemburg expressed in her pamphlet: "The element of spontaneity, as we have seen, plays a great part in all Russian mass strikes without exception, be it as a driving force or as a restraining influence... In short, in the mass strikes in Russia, the element of spontaneity plays such a predominant part, not becuase the Russian proletariat are 'uneducated,' but because revolutions do not allow anyone to play schoolmaster with them." CX6547 0 true true false CX6547.htm [0xc0005c4f90 0xc000c04420 0xc000d624b0 0xc0011e8ba0 0xc0014b4b70 0xc00150d350 0xc002289ce0 0xc00229cc30 0xc000112cf0 0xc000175260 0xc002439cb0 0xc002454d80 0xc0024724e0 0xc000e4ec30 0xc00032e150 0xc00032ec30 0xc000339dd0 0xc000348450 0xc00037d410 0xc00009ac90 0xc000301e60 0xc000386c00 0xc0004dd980 0xc0000f54a0 0xc0000f5950 0xc0002b9f50 0xc0006cb8f0 0xc000288990 0xc0003b3800 0xc000731260 0xc000a516e0 0xc0000685d0 0xc0004c65a0 0xc000a90840 0xc000bd1890 0xc0002e0ff0 0xc000b9b080 0xc000cf4e40 0xc0010b9f80 0xc0007f7d40 0xc0002473b0 0xc000368840 0xc0003d8450 0xc000477590 0xc0004cf200 0xc00056d470 0xc0005a0f90 0xc0005cab10 0xc000cd4990 0xc000d24450 0xc0013987e0 0xc001e654d0 0xc002082420 0xc0020ed590 0xc000738570 0xc0013770b0 0xc00190b140 0xc001c8b620 0xc0022acae0 0xc00232c360 0xc0024b3b60 0xc002516330 0xc0000fe450 0xc000202bd0 0xc0005f9fb0 0xc0007f10e0 0xc0009ee1b0 0xc000a7aa50 0xc000df5320 0xc000f207e0 0xc00103b530 0xc00118f7a0 0xc0018457a0 0xc001859c80 0xc001f7bec0 0xc002665f50 0xc002944750 0xc00296cde0 0xc0029b63f0 0xc0029f5110 0xc002a0fc80 0xc002a38990 0xc002a6eae0 0xc002a860f0 0xc002a876e0 0xc002af0210 0xc002b1b080 0xc002b61410] Cx}
Year Published:  1982
Pages:  234pp   ISBN:  0-391-02793-X
Library of Congress Number:  HX273.L83D86 1982   Dewey:  355.4
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX6547

Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."

Abstract: 
Dunayevskaya writes: By mid-August, when Luxemburg was working on The Mass Strike, the Party and the Trade Unions, it was clear that, far from the pamphlet's being restricted to the topics in the title, Luxemburg was, in fact, beginning to question not just the conservative trade union leadership, but the relation of Marxist leadership to spontaneity. She had always been highly responsive to proletarian acts of spontaneity. What was different this time was that the 1905 Revolution had disclosed a totally new relationship also to Marxist leadership. The most exciting phenomenon was that the so-called backward Russian worrkers had proved themselves far in advance of those in the technologically advanced countries, particularly Germany. Moreover, the Russian Revolution was not just a national happening. In its impact on both East and West, it had displayed an elemental force and reason of world scope. Luxemburg at once began working out its application to Germany.
It a word, spontaneity did not mean just instinctive action as against conscious direction. Quite the contrary: spontaneity was a driving force, not only of revolution but of the vanguard leadership, keeping it left. As Luxemburg expressed in her pamphlet: "The element of spontaneity, as we have seen, plays a great part in all Russian mass strikes without exception, be it as a driving force or as a restraining influence... In short, in the mass strikes in Russia, the element of spontaneity plays such a predominant part, not becuase the Russian proletariat are 'uneducated,' but because revolutions do not allow anyone to play schoolmaster with them."

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