<p>Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg develops a pathbreaking approach to the work and legacy of the Jewish-Polish-German revolutionary. While Luxemburg’s works are well-known and often referred to in a globalizing left discourse, the question of how they are politically and culturally embedded – in particular in the non-Western world – has rarely been posed. The editors Drucilla Cornell and Jane Anna Gordon bring together an amazing group of authors to discuss the relevance of a „creolized“ Luxemburg to historical as well as contemporary issues such as slavery, the „primitive accumulation of whiteness“, migrant caravans, the Arab spring, contemporary South Africa, and the Black radical tradition. A must-read for everybody interested in socialist theory and practice.</p>

- Albert Scharenberg, Director of Historical Center, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation,

Rosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly, for the purpose of creolizing the canon, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles, such as those in Poland and Russia, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined, to considerations of state sovereignty, democracy, feminism, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that, by creolizing Luxemburg, we can open up new paths of understanding the complexities of revolution.
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“I Have a Thousand More Things I Want to Say to You”: An Introduction to Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg, Drucilla Cornell and Jane Anna Gordon

Debating Nationalism

A Troubled Legacy: Rosa Luxemburg and the Non-Western World, Peter Hudis

The Contemporary Transnational Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s Socialist Critique of National Self-Determination, Drucilla Cornell

Against a Single History, for a Revaluation of Power: Luxemburg, James, and a Decolonial Critique of Political Economy, Alyssa Adamson

Revolutionary Subjects

Walter Rodney’s Russian Revolution and the Curious Case of Rosa Luxemburg,
Robin D. G. Kelley

A Political Economy of the Damned: Reading Rosa Luxemburg on Slavery through a Creolizing Lens, Jane Anna Gordon

One Hundred Years of Rosa Luxemburg’s Marxism: Imperialism and Lessons in Democracy for the Contemporary South African Left, Gunnett Kaaf

Rosa Luxemburg, Nature, and Imprisonment, Maria Theresia Starzmann

The Mass Strike, Past and Present

“The Living Pulsebeat of the Revolution”: Reading Luxemburg and Du Bois on the
Strike, Rafael Khachaturian

Luxemburg on Tahrir Square: Reading the Arab Revolutions with Rosa
Luxemburg’s The Mass Strike, Sami Zemni, Brecht De Smet, and Koenraad Boegaert

Migrant Caravans and Luxemburg’s Spontaneous Mass Strike, Josué Ricardo López

Reconsidering Primitive Accumulation

Disaggregating Primitive Accumulation, Robert Nichols

“No Eyes, No Interest, No Frame of Reference”: Rosa Luxemburg, Southern African
Historiography, and Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production, Jeff Guy

Luxemburg’s Contemporary Resonances in South Africa: Capital’s Renewed Super-Exploitation of People and Nature, Patrick Bond

Primitive Accumulation and the Government of the State in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ahmed Veriava

Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness, Siddhant Issar,
Rachel H. Brown, and John McMahon

Creolizing The Accumulation of Capital through Social Reproduction Theory: A Distinctively Luxemburgian Feminism, Ankica Čakardić

Unfinished Conversations among Revolutionary Women

“Staying Human”: Rosa, Raya, and Total Revolution, Nigel C. Gibson

Claudia Jones, Political Economy, and the Creolizing of Rosa Luxemburg,
Paget Henry

“To Be Young, Gifted, and” Woman: Reading Rosa Luxemburg through Lorraine Hansberry and the Black Radical Tradition, LaRose T. Parris

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781786614421
Publisert
2021-04-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield International
Vekt
885 gr
Høyde
227 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
34 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
512

Biografisk notat

Drucilla Cornell is emeritus professor of political science, women’s studies, and comparative literature at Rutgers University.

Jane Anna Gordon is associate professor and director of graduate studies in political science at University of Connecticut.