mai 1, 2017

Rosa Remix

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Regional Office Americas and UN, New York

Book on the life and legacy of Rosa Luxemburg – en anglais !



Rosa Luxemburg was a shining star of the early socialist movement. As an economist and political theorist, a teacher and public speaker, a comrade and rebel, a revolutionary and martyr of the German Revolution, she was many things to many people. Her legacy today reflects that, stretching across a broad spectrum of the international left.

In fall 2016 our New York office held a conference at the New School and co-hosted with Verso Books to which we invited a mixture of academics, journalists, and activists to discuss Rosa Luxemburg’s theoretical work and how it may contribute to current discussions taking place on the Left. The contributions of our invited speakers were so good that we decided to turn them into a book.

Rosa Remix is the result. With seven sections and sixteen chapters, Rosa Remix covers a wide range of subjects, starting with Rosa’s life, finishing with her legacy, and in between grappling with issues like climate justice, feminism, graphic novels, or protest movements.

The book also includes drawings from a recent graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg’s life, plus contributions from its editor and artist/author.

With this unique collection of short essays, we hope to truly remix Rosa’s body of work, carrying forward her indomitable spirit and invaluable political and economic theories for a new generation of activists and engaged citizens.

Table of contents

NEW TAKES ON A LONGTIME CLASSIC
 An Introduction to Rosa Remix
 Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary Life

SPONTANEITY AND ORGANIZATION
 The Mass Strike and Rosa’s Theory of Spontaneity
 The Global Protest Wave of 2011–12

ROSA LUXEMBURG AND FEMINISM
 Rosa Luxemburg: A Legacy for Feminists?
 Pick-up Artists, Ashley Madison, and Lifestyle Feminism
 Heroine of the Revolution

RED ROSA: A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY OF ROSA LUXEMBURG
 Writing (and Drawing) Rosa
 Red Rosa: The Making of a Graphic Novel

SOCIALISM OR BARBARISM
 An Unoriginal Plan to Save the Planet
 Socialism or Whole Foods: Luxemburgian Answers to our Climate Crisis
 It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Militarism Then and Now

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL
 New Perspectives on Neoliberal Finance
 The Accumulation of Capital: Remixed for Modern-day Southern Africa
 One Hundred Years of Capitalism’s Global Relocation

INSTEAD OF A CONCLUSION
 A Life Worth Revisiting: Looking Back on (and Publishing) Rosa’s Complete Works