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Was Rosa Luxemburg an Opponent of the Russian Revolution?
Rosa Luxemburg is often presented as an opponent of the Russian Revolution, but this is a deliberate misunderstanding. In fact, ... -
A Poem To Leftists Who Object to Violence
As uprisings sweep the United States, there is a small minority of socialists who object to "violence," "looting," etc. We ... -
Bhaskar Sunkara’s “Socialist Manifesto”: Dreaming of Sweden
Following in the footsteps of Marx and Engels, the founding editor of Jacobin has released a manifesto about how to ... -
Kautsky, Luxemburg, and Lenin in Light of the German Revolution
What can socialists today learn from Karl Kautsky? To answer this question, we need to see how his theories held ... -
The Politics of Red Rosa
On January 15, 1919, a group of Freikorps (German paramilitaries) murdered Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. What they could not ... -
Communism Made in Germany
100 years ago, Germany was an epicenter of communism. The Communist Party of Germany (KPD) had up to 300,000 members. ... -
100 Years Ago in Berlin: The Bitter Lesson of a Defeat
The Social Democrats and the military prepared to crush the revolution. A big majority of the working class desired socialism ... -
100 Years Ago in Berlin: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Germany
In the first days of the German Revolution, workers’ and soldiers’ councils formed across Germany. The Social Democrats allied with ... -
100 Years Ago in Berlin: German Revolutionaries Step on the Grass
According to an old joke, Germans will never make a revolution because that would require stepping on the grass. Yet ... -
‘The Workers Invented a Concept for Socialist Transformation’
On November 9, 1918, the revolution began in Germany. We spoke with historian Ralf Hoffrogge about the role of the ...