Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary for Our Times

Resurrecting the legacy of one who maintained 'Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for those who think differently, ' Bronner has written an admirable and pertinent book which contributes to debates among democratic socialists as to 'the way forward.'

--Irish Quarterly Review

This small booklet is a useful and sympathetic synthesis of Rosa Luxemburg's life and work, and their relevance for present-day politics. Her ideas on nationalism and internationalism, reform and revolution, imperialism and war, democracy and mass strike are aptly presented in a lively and non-academic way. . . . The greatest merit of the book is its partisan character; its decision to approach Rosa Luxemburg not as a closed chapter in the history of the Labor Movement, but as a source of inspiration for the present struggles, for a model of socialist democracy beyond bureaucracy and reformism, Stalin and-or Noske.

--New German Critique

Stephen Eric Bronner's book attempts to set a great revolutionary's thought in its historical context and also make the questions which she raised relevant to the concerns of the present. . . . Bronner's valuable book [is] the accessible lead into Luxemburg's enigmatic thinking and being which we have needed for some time.

--New Political Science

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.