Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was Polish, Jewish, and a woman in an international socialist movement dominated by Germans, gentiles, and men. For Luxemburg, there was no real socialism without democracy and no real democracy without socialism. In this biography Stephen Eric Bronner establishes Luxemburg’s legacy to contemporary socialist theory and practice. Stephen Eric Bronner is Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of, most recently, Moments of Decision: Political History and Crises of Radicalism and Socialism Unbound and the editor of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg.

Author Biography

Stephen Eric Bronner is Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of, most recently, Moments of Decision: Political History and Crises of Radicalism and Socialism Unbound and the editor of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg.