The Essential Rosa Luxemburg

The insightful new introduction to Luxemburg’s two most important works presents the full text of Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike, with explanatory notes, appendices, and introductions. These two essays offer a persuasive Marxist analysis on the decisive questions of Luxemburg’s era: Can capitalism ever be refined into a just system or must it be replaced root and branch? And what kind of struggle from below is needed to achieve such a transformation?