Reform or Revolution

by Rosa Luxemburg

Overview

Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot “reform” away exploitation and economic crises.

Appendix: ‘Evolutionary socialism—ultimate aim and tendency’ by Eduard Bernstein.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873483032
Publisher:	Pathfinder Press
Publication date:	01/01/1973
Pages:	122
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) was a leader of the revolutionary proletarian wing of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). She opposed the SPD leadership majority who sought to “reform” capitalism and fought the reformists’ patriotic capitulation to Berlin’s imperialist war aims in World War I. She hailed the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. She was killed by thugs of the SPD-backed bourgeois regime. Her writings include Rosa Luxemburg Speaks (1970) and Reform or Revolution (1970).

Editorial Reviews

This book is a response to the writings of Eduard Bernstein arguing against the necessity and inevitability of revolution, claiming that socialism can be achieved by gradual reforms to the capitalist system.

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