Michael Brie is Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin, Germany. Recent books include Rediscovering Lenin: Dialectics of Revolution and Metaphysics of Domination (2019) and Karl Polanyi in Dialogue: A Socialist Thinker of Our Times (2017).
Jörn Schütrumpf is Head of the Research Group on Rosa Luxemburg of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin, Germany. Recent books include "Spartacus Uprising": The suppressed report of the committee of inquiry of the constituent Prussian state assembly on the January 1919 riots in Berlin (2018) and Paul Levi: Without a drop of minions blood. Spartacus (2018).
Chapter 1. Show us the miracle! Where is your miracle?
- To be oneself in the world
- In Prison: With Herself and in the World
- Speaking Truth - Living Truth
- Freedom is Always the Freedom of the Others
- Bibliography
Chapter 2. The Blighted Authority of Engels and Kautsky
- Returning to Marx-But to Which One?
- The Maximal Programme and the Minimal Programme
- Settling Accounts with 'Ersatz Marxism'
- Failing to Understand One's Own Situation
- Bibliography
Chapter 3. The 'Fully Fledged Marxist' and the Polish Question
- The Founding of the Social Democracy Movement in Poland and its Two Factions
- Luxemburg's Dissertation 'The Industrial Development of Poland'
- A Return to the Polish Question-1908-09
- Bibliography
Chapter 4. Revolutionary Realpolitik
- New Questions for Old Answers
- The Strategy of the SPD from 1891
- Bernstein's Total Revision of Marxism
- The Hammer Blow of the Revolution
- The Unity of Marxism and Socialism
- Bibliography
Chapter 5. The Millerand Case - Socialist Participation in Government as a Test Case of Theory and Strategy
- The Bone of Contention
- The Gap Between Marxist Theory and Socialist Practice
- Rosa Luxemburg's Formulation of the Problem
- Capitalism and The Class State
- The Struggle for the Democratisation of Democracy and the Question of Violence
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
Chapter 6. The Electric Age of Unexpected Developments: The 1905 Russian Revolution
- General Strike, Debate on Organisation and Political Leadership
- Lessons from the 1905 Russian Revolution
- Defeat as a Path to Victory
- Freedom for the Enemy
- Bibliography
Chapter 7. On the Defensive
- The SPD at the Crossroads
- Against 'Nothing-But-Parliamentarism and 'Nothing-But-Action'
- The Great War and the Search for a Strategic Response
- Bibliography
Chapter 8. The Imperialist Age and the Accumulation of Capital
- 'Help me figure something out-but quickly!'
- Society As a Cultural Organism
- Capitalism as an Impossible World Form
- Politico-Economical Foundations of a New Strategy
- Bibliography
Chapter 9. Rosa Luxemburg's Symphony on the Russian Revolution
- The Prehistory
- Luxemburg's Criticism of the Bolsheviks: Too Little Socialism, Too Little Democracy
- The Anticipated Harmony of Opposites: Necessity and Freedom
- Bibliography
Chapter 10. Beyond Social Democrats and Bolsheviks
- Revolutionary Leadership and Self-Empowerment
- Revolution in Russia - An Alternative Strategy
- How the Bolsheviks 'Won' the Revolution and Make Luxemburg's Nightmares Come True
- Bibliography
Chapter 11. The November Revolution: A New Beginning Violently Interrupted
- Socialism as the Order of the Day
- Programmatic Renewal and the Founding of the KPD
- The January Uprising in Berlin and Government Terror
- Bibliography
Chapter 12. Spat at, Adored, but Also Indispensable?
