Rosa Luxemburg’s Symphony on the Russian Revolution
Autor: | Jörn Schütrumpf, Michael Brie |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Zdroj: | Rosa Luxemburg ISBN: 9783030674854 Rediscovering Lenin ISBN: 9783030233266 |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-67486-1_9 |
Popis: | This chapter reconstructs the works as if it were a symphony, with its classical four movements, composed as much through logic as by passion. In summary: whereas Luxemburg’s manuscript The Russian Revolution chiefly appraises in the first and the fourths part the Bolsheviks’ success in finding the right slogans to move and provide the masses with a focus towards revolutionary action, she also follows a second goal, namely to criticise Bolshevik policies precisely there where they stand against her understanding of socialism as a creation by the workers themselves. Both high esteem and harsh criticism of the historic accomplishment of the Bolsheviks are measured by the same standard. For Rosa Luxemburg, socialism always essentially depends on one thing: ‘The whole mass of the people must take part in it’. This is the leitmotif of her great symphony on the Russian Revolution. Rosa Luxemburg developed a socialist vision of true harmony of the two opposed movements of dictatorship and freedom. This unity was only possible because she was convinced that through their everyday practices workers and the masses would change the ‘thousands of complicated difficulties’ that develop while constructing socialism into ‘unobstructed, effervescing life’. |
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