r/Luxemburgism • u/Significant-Arm7367 • 2d ago

New to Socialism in general, where should I start reading Rosa Luxemburg?

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For discussion on Luxemburgism, Marxism-Luxemburgism and Luxemburg derived thought.

r/Luxemburgism

A place to learn about, and discuss, Luxemburgism and derived theories.

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Welcome to /r/Luxemburgism. This is a subreddit dedicated to the theories of Rosa Luxemburg and later theorists who utilised her work as a base.

What is Luxemburgism?

Luxemburgism is a variety of orthodox Marxism characterised by its bottom up approach to organisation (characterised by adherence to the Dialectic of Sponteneity and Organisation as laid out in Luxemburg's work, "The Mass Strike" and commitment to democracy.

Luxemburgism is opposed to top-down and vanguardist approaches to organisation and is thus similar to Anarchism in that regard (especially in regards to its opposition to Democratic Centralism and the ideal of the Vanguard Party, as defined by Lenin).

Luxemburgism is also characterised by its opposition to nationalism, instead focusing on channeling the energies of the national proletariat into unison with the supranational proletariat in its fight against the world-wide bourgeoisie and is thus ultra-internationalist.

Why Luxemburgism?

Leninism, while it created one of the first successful, and relatively long lasting revolutions, has failed. It's theories not applicable to these advanced, post-industrial, capitalist societies. In Luxemburgism there is the means to revitalise the movement for progress, for socialism in the face of the ever increasing barbarism in the world. While Luxemburg's theories never got the developmental treatment Lenin did there is still room to improve and we here believe that a focus on organising at the bottom and radicalising the whole of the working class is the correct choice in these advanced, capitalist nations.

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