By Bernard E. Harcourt Reading Rosa Luxemburg through the lens of the ongoing Columbia graduate student workers’ strike, #CUonStrike, raises many questions about the ways in which the act of striking and protesting can transform the lives and self-understandings of… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In a brilliant essay for Revolution 5/13, “Revolution, History, and the Beyond of Capitalism: Re-reading the Luxemburg-Bernstein Debate,” the philosopher and critical theorist Amy Allen raises a number of timely questions for our collective discussion: Can… Continue Reading
By Amy Allen How should we read the debate between Rosa Luxemburg and Eduard Bernstein now? At first glance, it might seem like a family squabble that turns on questions of political strategy. After all, Bernstein and Luxemburg profess to… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt No coarser insult, no baser aspersion, can be thrown against the workers that the remark: “Theoretic controversies are only for academicians.” — Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1899)[1] To break down the conventional division of… Continue Reading