Long Reads: The Hidden Rosa Luxemburg w/ Peter Hudis

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

More than a century after her death in 1919, Rosa Luxemburg is unquestionably one of the most celebrated Marxist thinkers. But until very recently, most of her work had never appeared in English translation. Verso Books and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation have set out to fill the gap by publishing her collected works. Peter Hudis, a professor of philosophy and humanities at Oakton Community College and the author of several books, including Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades, is one of the editors who’s been working on that project.

Peter joins Long Reads to discuss Luxemburg's collected works. Read his essays, "Rosa Luxemburg Anticipated the Destructive Impact of Capitalist Globalization" and "Rosa Luxemburg Was the Great Theorist of Democratic Revolution," on the Jacobin website.

Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by features editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies. Music by Knxwledge.

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0:00.0	Longreads is supported by Haymarket Books.
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0:08.2	working-class politics across the Russian Empire by Eric Blanc.
0:13.2	Blanc draws on research in eight different languages
0:16.2	to tell the story of socialists in Saras, Russia's imperial borderlands,
0:20.9	from the factories of Warsaw to the oil fields of Baku.
0:24.9	He shows that the Russian Revolution was much less Russian
0:28.4	than is commonly assumed.
0:31.0	You can find Revolutionary Social Democracy at haymarketbooks.org.
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0:46.2	Hello, you're very welcome to Longreads, a Jacobin podcast
0:49.4	where we look in depth at political topics and thinkers.
0:52.4	My name's Daniel Finn, and the features editor here at Jacobin,
0:56.5	and I'll be presenting the show.
1:07.6	The song we're listening to is Auf, Auf, Zum Kampf.
1:11.7	Originally a song for German soldiers in the First World War
1:15.1	was rewritten after the murders of Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebnitz.
1:19.8	It became an anthem of Germany's radical left.
1:22.8	This version was recorded by the folk singer, Hannes Vader.
1:45.4	More than a century after her death in 1919,
1:48.4	Luxembourg is unquestionably one of the most celebrated Marxist thinkers.
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