“Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party – however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of ‘justice’ but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when ‘freedom’ becomes a special privilege.”

The Russian Revolution

Works:

1894: What Are the Origins of May Day?

1896: The Polish Question at the International Congress in London

1896: Social Democracy and the National Struggles in Turkey

1898: The Industrial Development of Poland

1898: Opportunism and the art of the possible

1898: Speeches to Stuttgart Congress

1899: A question of tactics

1899: Speech to the Hanover Congress

1899: The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case

1899: Militia and Militarism

1900: In Defense of Nationality

1900: Reform or Revolution

1901: The Socialist Crisis in France

1901: To the National Council of the French Worker’s Party

1902: Martinique

1902: The Eight Hour Day at the Party Congress

1903: An anti-clerical policy of Socialism

1903: In Memory of the Proletarian Party

1903: Marxist Theory and the Proletariat

1903: Stagnation and Progress of Marxism

1903: Lassalle and the Revolution

1904: In the Storm

1904: Social Democracy and Parliamentarism

1904: Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy [aka Leninism or Marxism?]

1905: The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement

1905: The Revolution in Russia

1905: Socialism and the Churches

1906: The Mass Strike

1906: Riot and Revolution

1906: Blanquism and Social Democracy

1907: Two Methods of Trade-Union Policy

1908: 25th anniversary of Marx’s death

1908: The First May as a Day of Working-Class Struggle

1908: On the Question of Budget Approval

1908: The Party School

1909: The National Question

1909: Revolutionary Hangover

1909: Special Problems of Poland

1910: The Next Step

1910: Theory & Practice [A polemic against Comrade Kautsky’s theory of the Mass Strike]

1911: Concerning Morocco

1911: Peace Utopias

1911: Mass Action

1911: An Amusing Misunderstanding

1911: To the Unity Conference of the Socialist Organisations in Manchester

1912: Women’s Suffrage and Class Struggle

1912: The Fallen Women of Liberalism

1912: What Now?

1913: The Idea of May Day on the March

1913: Down With Reformist Illusions—Hail the Revolutionary Class Struggle!

1913: The Political Mass Strike

1913: Lassalle’s Legacy

1913: The Accumulation of Capital

1915: The Accumulation of Capital: An Anti-Critique

1915: Rebuilding the International

1915: The Junius Pamphlet (The Crisis of Social Democracy)

1915: Theses on the Tasks of International Social-Democracy

1916: Either/Or

1916: Dog Politics

1917: The Old Mole

1918: The Russian Revolution

1918: Life of Korolenko

1918: The Russian tragedy

1918: Oh! How – German is this Revolution!

1918: The Beginning

1918: A Duty of Honor (Alternate Translation: Against Capital Punishment)

1918: The National Assembly

1918: A Call to the Workers of the World

1918: The Acheron in Motion

1918: Five Letters from Prison

1916–1918: Letters from Prison to Sophie Liebknecht

1918: The Socialisation of Society (Alternate Translation: What is Bolshevism?)

1918: What does the Spartacus League Want?

1918: The Elections to the National Assembly

1918: Our Program and the Political Situation (Alternate Translation: On the Spartacus Programme)

1919: What are the Leaders Doing?

1919: House of Cards

1919: Order Prevails in Berlin

After Death: What is Economics? (PF)

Acknowledgements

Many of Luxemburg’s works are still in copyright as they have been translated within the last thirty odd years and we are therefore most grateful to a number of publishers who have allowed us to place her works on the Marxist Internet Archive. We must thank Bob Looker and Random House for sixteen articles in Rosa Luxemburg, Selected Political Writings, edited and introduced by Robert Looker, 1974 and to Dick Howard and Monthly Review Press for six articles from Selected Political Writings, Rosa Luxemburg, 1971 together with eight articles from The National Question: Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg, edited and introduced by the late Horace B. Davis, 1976. None of the interesting and informative background material in the introductions to these books is on the MIA and readers will have to find them in print form. Dick Howard has pointed out that he has updated and reworked the materials in the Introduction to the 1971 book as a chapter in his work The Marxian Legacy (2nd edition, 1988). We would also like to thank Peter Hudis and News and Letters for permission to publish Theory and Practice. We are also very grateful to Tessa DeCarlo who has given us permission to put her translation of The Industrial Development of Poland, originally published by Campaigner Publications in 1977. She has slightly revised and edited this version.

Finally Monthly Review Press have produced a new edition of Luxemburg’s works, The Rosa Luxemburg Reader, 2004, ISBN 1-5837-103-X. Edited by Hudis & Anderson, it contains, in addition to a scholarly introduction and improved versions of some already published works, some totally new translations by Passmore and Anderson including a number of writings on women, slavery and the Russian Social Democracy. There is also a fine collection of her letters, all new translations called Letters of Rosa Luxemburg produced by Humanities in 1998. Both of these are not available online but are worth reading.

There is a vast corpus of her work in German. The MIA would be delighted to publish any previously untranslated material. We have also listed above some of her English copyrighted works, in an attempt make people aware of the number of these we need to get online.