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In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi
Paul Levi remains one of the most interesting and controversial figures in the history of the Communist movement. As leader of the KPD after the murder of Luxemburg and Liebknecht, he successfully built up a party of a third of a million members, but by 1921 Comintern pressure forced Levi’s resignation. This is the first English edition of Levi's writings.
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In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi
Paul Levi remains one of the most interesting and controversial figures in the history of the Communist movement. As leader of the KPD after the murder of Luxemburg and Liebknecht, he successfully built up a party of a third of a million members, but by 1921 Comintern pressure forced Levi’s resignation. This is the first English edition of Levi's writings.
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In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi

In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi

In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi

In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi

Overview

Paul Levi remains one of the most interesting and controversial figures in the history of the Communist movement. As leader of the KPD after the murder of Luxemburg and Liebknecht, he successfully built up a party of a third of a million members, but by 1921 Comintern pressure forced Levi’s resignation. This is the first English edition of Levi's writings.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608462346
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 09/18/2012
Series: Historical Materialism
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 350
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

David Fernbach studied at London School of Economics. He is a freelance writer, editor and translator. Publications include the three-volume edition of Karl Marx’s Political Writings (Penguin 1973-4, reissued Verso 2010), and The Spiral Path: a gay contribution to human survival (1981). Translations include Marx’s Capital Volumes Two and Three, and works by Georg Lukacs, Rudolf Bahro, Boris Groys, Nicos Poulantzas, Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière.

Paul Levi (1886 1930) was a long time friend and sometimes lawyer to Rosa Luxemburg. Levi became one of the leading members of the German Communist Party, and an active participant in the Communist International.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Leading the KPD
Address to the Founding Congress of the KPD
Letter to Lenin (1919)
The Munich Experience: An Opposing View
The Political Situation and the KPD (October 1919)
The Lessons of the Hungarian Revolution
The World-Situation and the German Revolution
The Beginning of the Crisis in the Communist Party and the International
Letter to Loriot

Part Two: The March Action
Our Path: Against Putschism
What Is the Crime? The March Action or Criticising It?
Letter to Lenin (1921)
The Demands of the Kommunistische Arbeitsgemeinschaft

Part Three: The Soviet Question
Letter to Clara Zetkin
Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg’s pamphlet The Russian Revolution
Introduction to Trotsky, The Lessons of October
The Retreat from Leninism
After Ten Years
Approaching the End
Return

Part Four: The German Republic
The Murder of Erzberger
The Needs of the Hour
Why We Are Joining the United Social-Democratic Party
The Assassination of Rathenau
The Situation after Rathenau’s Death
The Reich and the Workers
The Defenders of the Republic
After the Oath

References
Index
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