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    Reform or Revolution
    Reform or Revolution
    Reform or Revolution
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    Reform or Revolution

    Written by Rosa Luxemburg

    Narrated by Sam Marseille

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    ‘Reform or Revolution’, also titled ‘Social Reform or Revolution?’ is an 1899 pamphlet by Polish-German Marxist theorist Rosa Luxemburg, in which she argues that trade unions, reformist political parties and the expansion of social democracy would not create a socialist society as Eduard Bernstein, among others, argued. She contends from a historical materialist perspective that capitalism, being economically unsustainable, would eventually collapse. She believed that a revolution was necessary to transform capitalism into socialism. The pamphlet was influential in revolutionary socialist circles and an important precursor to left communist theory.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWoodkeep Audio
    Release dateMay 23, 2021
    ISBN9781662195167
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    Rosa Luxemburg

    Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher and economist. One of the most brilliant minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement, she was a dedicated political activist, she proved willing to go to prison and even give her life for her beliefs. Her selected works are collected in Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism or Barbarism (Pluto, 2010).

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    • 5/5
      A succinct polemic against a man history only remembers for being skewered by some of the greatest minds to ever live. Reform and revolution are both needed. The question is which one and why. Rosa answers these questions.