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Rosa Luxemburg:
The Problem of Nationality and Autonomy
(1909)
First Published: In a series of articles on The national question and autonomy which appeared in Luxemburg’s Cracow magazine, Przeglad socialdemokratyczny, 1908–1909.
Source: The National Question – Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg, edited and introduced by the late Horace B. Davis, Monthly Review Press, 1976.
Translated: (from the Polish).
Transcription/Markup: Ted Crawford/Brian Baggins.
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Recommended Prerequisites: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement; The Polish Question at the International Congress in London
Recommended Follow–up: Theses of the Editors of Gazeta Robotnicza: Imperialism and National Oppression; II The So–Called Right of Self–Determination of Nations; III. The Polish Question and Social Democracy
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination
The Nation–State and the Proletariat
Federation, Centralization, and Particularism
Centralization and Autonomy
The National Question and Autonomy
Publisher’s Notes
Rosa Luxemburg published a series of articles under the general title, The Problem of Nationality and Autonomy, in her theoretical journal, Przeglad Sozialdemokratyczny
(Krakow), in nos.6–10, 12, and 14–15, 1908 and 1909. The paging was as
follows: Article 1 pps.482–515; 2, 597–612; 3, 613–631; 4, 687–710; 5,
795–818; 6 (Special Problems of Poland), pp.136–63, 351–76. The first five articles (but not the sixth) are included in the present collection.
The Notes are somewhat confusing. They have been renumbered and those
that were by Rosa Luxemburg or her publisher attributed while the
others are by the editor Horace B. Davis in the Monthly Review edition.
Editor’s Note
[by Horace B Davies]
The theses here presented are the work of Radek,
Stein–Krajewski, and M. Bronski, who were then located in Switzerland;
before the draft was published, it was submitted also to Hanecki in
Copenhagen. This was the so–called Rostamowcy fraction of the old
SDKPiL. Nationalism was not an issue between this group and the
Zarzadowcy faction to which Rosa Luxemburg belonged, so these theses are
intended as an expression and continuation of Rosa Luxemburg’s position
on the national question. Of course, Rosa Luxemburg herself had by this
time modified her position slightly, as will be evident from a study of
the “Junius” pamphlet, published at the same time as these theses; her
position two years later, in the pamphlet, The Russian Revolution
(a chapter of which is included in the present collection), is again
not precisely the same. However, the theses do express her general point
of view.
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