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The Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg
The most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, this book includes 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements–Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht–who were among her closest friends, lovers and colleagues. Many of these letters appear for the first time in English translation; all help to illuminate the inner life of this iconic revolutionary, who was at once an economic and social theorist, a political activist and a lyrical stylist. Her political concerns are revealed alongside her personal struggles within a socialist movement that was often hostile to independently minded women. This collection will provide readers with a newer and deeper appreciation of Luxemburg as a writer and historical figure.
672 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1979
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Rosa Luxemburg
490 books864 followersRosa Luxemburg (Rosalia Luxemburg, Polish: Róża Luksemburg) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and activist of Polish Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen. She was successively a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the Social Democratic Party of Germany(SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party and the Communist Party of Germany.
In 1915, after the SPD supported German involvement in World War I, she co-founded, with Karl Liebknecht, the anti-war Spartakusbund (Spartacist League). On 1 January 1919 the Spartacist League became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In November 1918, during the German Revolution she founded the Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), the central organ of the Spartacist movement.
She regarded the Spartacist uprising of January 1919 in Berlin as a blunder, but supported it after Liebknecht ordered it without her knowledge. When the revolt was crushed by the social democrat government and the Freikorps (WWI veterans defending the Weimar Republic), Luxemburg, Liebknecht and some of their supporters were captured and murdered. Luxemburg was drowned in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin. After their deaths, Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht became martyrs for Marxists. According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, commemoration of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht continues to play an important role among the German far-left.
In 1915, after the SPD supported German involvement in World War I, she co-founded, with Karl Liebknecht, the anti-war Spartakusbund (Spartacist League). On 1 January 1919 the Spartacist League became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In November 1918, during the German Revolution she founded the Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), the central organ of the Spartacist movement.
She regarded the Spartacist uprising of January 1919 in Berlin as a blunder, but supported it after Liebknecht ordered it without her knowledge. When the revolt was crushed by the social democrat government and the Freikorps (WWI veterans defending the Weimar Republic), Luxemburg, Liebknecht and some of their supporters were captured and murdered. Luxemburg was drowned in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin. After their deaths, Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht became martyrs for Marxists. According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, commemoration of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht continues to play an important role among the German far-left.
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July 18, 2018
Finished before bed last night and woke up still so sad, sad that I was done and there were no more to read, sad for what happened to Rosa, sad for the fact that the world is still a capitalist hellhole. Spending some time on this book has gotten me through the worst parts of a rough summer.
March 24, 2022
You can tell a lot about someone by their personal letters. I read this book to find out more about her and I think the only two complaints I have were:
- the dull intro written by someone else who didn’t draw my attention
- that there wasn’t explanations for each letter at the top of each (would have been nice for some of the ones that you’re thrown into, though the notes at the bottom helped a bit)
Rosa was funny, witty, sarcastic, stood up for what she believed in, smart, and daydreamy. Even when Rosa was jailed, she continued to educated herself and give advice to her comrades. She’s quick to speak her mind.
If she likes you or hates you or didn’t like what you did, she will freaking tell you. Sometimes it’s hard to read her mood because she will go hard in the paint and then be like “kisses; sweet regards”!
This book is a great chance to really see who Rosa was. And you learn a good bit from her knowledge of birds and plants. Very into botany, geology, and nature - fave quotes on this:
“The sun was still hot, but one was happy to allow its slanted rays to burn one's neck and cheeks like a kiss. A low breath of air moved the bushes like a whispered promise that the coolness of evening would soon arrive and relieve the heat of the day. In the sky, which was a sparkling, glimmering blue, some dazzling-white cloud formations stood towering; a very pale half-moon swam between them like a phantom, like a dream. The swallows had already begun their nightly communal flight. Their sharp pointed wings cut the blue silk of space into pieces. They shot to and fro somersaulting with shrill cries in the dizzying heights. I stood with my dripping water can in my hand. My head was held high, and I had an uncontrollable desire to plunge into the moist, shimmering blue above, to bathe in it, to splash in it, to give myself up to the foam and then disappear.”
“You know that I feel and suffer with every creature; I will rinse off a wasp that slips into my inkwell three times in luke warm water and then dry it in the sun on the balcony in order to give back to it that little bit of light.”
Keeps her head high when in jail - fave quotes on this:
“One never sees things and life properly through black lenses.”
“Still, my cheerfulness will eventually return--after all, I carry an inexhaustible supply within me.”
“You ask in your card. “Why is it all the way it is?" What a child you are! Life has been "the way it is" since time immemorial. Everything is a part of life: sorrow and separation and longing. One always has to take it along with everything, and one must view everything as beautiful and good. At least, I do it that way-not through any calculated wisdom, but rather simply so, from my nature. I instinctively feel that this is the only right way to take life and that's why I feel truly happy in every situation. I wouldn't have missed any part of my life, and I wouldn't have had it any other way than it was and is. If I could only bring you to this conception of life!”
“After all, a prison is a natural extension of our calling as fighters for the freedom of the proletariat and, from Russia. I have become accustomed to considering the entry and exit from these walls as the purest circumstance.”
“only I wouldn't forget the basic resolution which I made for my life: to be good. That's the main thing! To be good-plain and simple; that resolves and binds everything.”
“Well, I never grieve long over the unattainable. Instead, I concentrate with all my soul on the present and the beauty it offers.”
Towards one of her last letters in jail, she compares her pain to the buffalo outside her window that she sees being whipped. That the only quality they share is loss and sadness.
It was a very rough ending because it’s quite abrupt. Knowing of her awful death is a hit to the stomach after reading such a beautiful book.
- the dull intro written by someone else who didn’t draw my attention
- that there wasn’t explanations for each letter at the top of each (would have been nice for some of the ones that you’re thrown into, though the notes at the bottom helped a bit)
Rosa was funny, witty, sarcastic, stood up for what she believed in, smart, and daydreamy. Even when Rosa was jailed, she continued to educated herself and give advice to her comrades. She’s quick to speak her mind.
If she likes you or hates you or didn’t like what you did, she will freaking tell you. Sometimes it’s hard to read her mood because she will go hard in the paint and then be like “kisses; sweet regards”!
This book is a great chance to really see who Rosa was. And you learn a good bit from her knowledge of birds and plants. Very into botany, geology, and nature - fave quotes on this:
“The sun was still hot, but one was happy to allow its slanted rays to burn one's neck and cheeks like a kiss. A low breath of air moved the bushes like a whispered promise that the coolness of evening would soon arrive and relieve the heat of the day. In the sky, which was a sparkling, glimmering blue, some dazzling-white cloud formations stood towering; a very pale half-moon swam between them like a phantom, like a dream. The swallows had already begun their nightly communal flight. Their sharp pointed wings cut the blue silk of space into pieces. They shot to and fro somersaulting with shrill cries in the dizzying heights. I stood with my dripping water can in my hand. My head was held high, and I had an uncontrollable desire to plunge into the moist, shimmering blue above, to bathe in it, to splash in it, to give myself up to the foam and then disappear.”
“You know that I feel and suffer with every creature; I will rinse off a wasp that slips into my inkwell three times in luke warm water and then dry it in the sun on the balcony in order to give back to it that little bit of light.”
Keeps her head high when in jail - fave quotes on this:
“One never sees things and life properly through black lenses.”
“Still, my cheerfulness will eventually return--after all, I carry an inexhaustible supply within me.”
“You ask in your card. “Why is it all the way it is?" What a child you are! Life has been "the way it is" since time immemorial. Everything is a part of life: sorrow and separation and longing. One always has to take it along with everything, and one must view everything as beautiful and good. At least, I do it that way-not through any calculated wisdom, but rather simply so, from my nature. I instinctively feel that this is the only right way to take life and that's why I feel truly happy in every situation. I wouldn't have missed any part of my life, and I wouldn't have had it any other way than it was and is. If I could only bring you to this conception of life!”
“After all, a prison is a natural extension of our calling as fighters for the freedom of the proletariat and, from Russia. I have become accustomed to considering the entry and exit from these walls as the purest circumstance.”
“only I wouldn't forget the basic resolution which I made for my life: to be good. That's the main thing! To be good-plain and simple; that resolves and binds everything.”
“Well, I never grieve long over the unattainable. Instead, I concentrate with all my soul on the present and the beauty it offers.”
Towards one of her last letters in jail, she compares her pain to the buffalo outside her window that she sees being whipped. That the only quality they share is loss and sadness.
It was a very rough ending because it’s quite abrupt. Knowing of her awful death is a hit to the stomach after reading such a beautiful book.
July 23, 2015
I love Rosa even more now :)
June 7, 2021
مع كل رسالة أقرأها أقول لنفسي أني سأبدأ بالمراسلة، لصديق وهمي ربما! يال جمال هذه المرسلات!
تكاد تكون يوميات أكثر من كونها رسائل، وأجزم أن هذه أرقى أنواع المرسلات، حين تشارك من تحب تفاصيل يومك وما يجول بخاطرك.
لست ملمة بشخصية روزا لوكسمبورغ كثيرًا، ويبدو أن صيتها السياسي والحركي كبير، لكن من خلال رسائلها هذه أستطيع القول أنها إنسانة ذات ذوق أدبي رفيع وشخصية تجلب لنفسها الشقاء بسبب حسها العالي بالجمال وبالعدل ربما، لقد سُجنت أكثر من مرة! وكم ذاقت من الحنين بسبب سجنها، وكم نهضت بعد ذاك!
أحببت وصفها للأمور بسلاسة، هنا أضع بعض الاقتباسات:
"فأنا في الواقع، أجتاز الآن فترة قاسية، أمر شبيه بالعام الماضي، أصمد لمدة سبعة أشهر ثم تنهار أعصابي دفعة واحدة في الشهر الثامن، ويغدو كل نهار جديد، قمة صغيرة يجب تسلقها، وتسبب لي أصغر تفاهة، توترًا مؤلمًا."
" أما أنا، فمن عادتي ألا أيأس طويلًا من إمكانية نيل المستحيل، وأتعلق بكل كياني بالحاضر وبالجمال الذي يوفره لي."
" إن شمس نيسان تأتي إليكم أولًا، أرسلها لي بأسرع ما يمكن كي تضيء مرة أخرى من جديد روائع الحياة التي نصادفها في كل مكان في الشارع، وكي تمنحني من جديد الطيبة والهدوء والصفاء."
" آه ما أكثر ما رأيت في هذه الأثناء، جيل كامل من الزهور تفتح في ظل رعايتي اليقظة … ومات."
" ستعود لي عافيتي بالطبع -إذ إني أحملها في داخلي بكميات لا تنضب- ولكنني أنتظر تحسن حال حطامي، وهو أمر شاق ولا يحدث من تلقاء نفسه."
" سأكون الآن أكثر حرصًا، ولكن غالبًا ما يكسب المرء الحكمة بعد فوات الأوان."
July 12, 2014
"The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg" are the most vivid, down-to-earth and beautiful documents of revolutionary socialism, the capacities of the human spirit & mind, and the never-ending struggles of working-class and oppressed people I have ever read. They are undoubtedly rival to Malcolm X's autobiography, Trotsky's final testament and Bensaid and Serge's memoirs.
August 21, 2019
This is a really interesting read and a very human insight into a great historical figure. I have to admit that the economic theorising went over my head, but it's quite amusing reading the love letters written by a world renowned economist. It's quite moving to see her love of nature and literature and her general optimism coming through in her letters from prison.
March 10, 2019
هرکسی باید این نامههارو بخونه و درس مقاومت و پایداری در مقابل ظلم و سیاهی بگیره.
October 22, 2023
"ارتجف لفكرة أني سأبقى إلى آخر حياتي، مثقلة بهذا الصرح..(العروش تنهار والممالك تهوي) والعالم مقلوب رأسا على عقب، وأنا في النهاية لا أخرج من هذه الدائرة المشؤومة، مع بضع عشرات من الأشخاص، هم نفسهم على الدوام، (وكلما تغير الأمر، كلما بقي هو نفسه تماما) إذا توقع كل شيء.
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كان من المفترض أن أقرأ سيرة لها حتى افهم مراسلاتها حينها ستكتمل الفكرة عن ماهية روزا فتبقى المراسلات مثل شيء مبهم.
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لكن الشيء الجميل طريقة روزا في المراسلات تكاد تدفعك لكتابة رساله لأي صديق.
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كان من المفترض أن أقرأ سيرة لها حتى افهم مراسلاتها حينها ستكتمل الفكرة عن ماهية روزا فتبقى المراسلات مثل شيء مبهم.
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لكن الشيء الجميل طريقة روزا في المراسلات تكاد تدفعك لكتابة رساله لأي صديق.
November 10, 2021
Merhaba;
Rosa Lüxemburg (05.03.1871 – 15.01.1919) Polonyalı bir Marksist ekonomist ,savaş karşıtı eylemciydi.Filozof ve devrimci sosyalist. Polonya'da asimile olmuş bir Yahudi ailede doğup büyüdü, 1897'de Alman vatandaşı olmuş. Benim kitabım Mahmut Ertekin çevirisi, Gece Kitaplığından çıktığı için ve sitede de bu kitabın kaydı olmadığı için mecburen okuduğum kitaba en yakın yayına kaydettim. ( En azından isimleri aynı :) ) Rosa savaş yıllarındaki son tutuklanmasında 1915-1916’ya kadar, (sonrasında 1918’e kadar ek ceza almış) içeriden arkadaşlarına kart ve mektuplar yazmıştı. İşte o mektupları okuyoruz. Nasıl yazsam şöyle başlayayım: Rosa kaçtığı ve saklanmak zorunda kaldığı Zürih'de Felsefe ve Sosyoloji okudu diyor Wikipedia'sında ama bir mektubunda da arkadaşına kendisinin doğa bilimleri okuduğunu yazıyor. Öyle bir tabiatı var ki inanamazsınız normal bir insan anlattığı hapishanelerde hücrelerde demoralize olup hayata küser Rosa hiç umudunu kaybetmiyor ve hücresinin penceresinde kuş seslerini ve onların davranışlarını gözleyip kaleme alıyor. Hayvanlara olan sevgisi ve düşünce tarzı beni çok etkiledi. Böyle bir insan, bu akılda, bu tabiata sahip bir insan nasıl olur nasıl tutsak edilir? Çünkü akıllıydı, çevreye duyarlıydı ve umudu, cesareti vardı. Dünyada bu tip insanlar hep tutsak edilmiştir. Rosa da onlardan biri. Kimse böyle bir ölümü hak etmiyor. Hayat görüşlerini okuduğumuz bambaşka bir Rosa var mektuplarında. Rosa nın ölümü de çok dramatik. Önce işkence, sonra bir tüfek dipçiğiyle yere seriliyor, ardından ya Teğmen Kurt Vogel ya da Teğmen Hermann Souchon tarafından kafasından vuruldu . Cesedi Berlin deki Landwehr Kanalı'na atıldı . Sonra bulunan cesedi isimsiz olarak morga getirildi.) yazıyor Wikipedia da. Kitabın sonunda Berlin Yayımcılar Derneği’nin bir ön sözü varkiiii aman aman öve öve bitiremiyorlar. Zaten “Kel Ölür Sırma Saçlı Olur, Kör Ölür Badem Gözlü Olur “ öyle değil mi? Bu Dünyada da böyle başka ne yazayım. Bence Rosa Lüksenburg'u tanımalıyız. Rosa, seninle tanıştığıma çok memnun oldum.
Rosa Lüxemburg (05.03.1871 – 15.01.1919) Polonyalı bir Marksist ekonomist ,savaş karşıtı eylemciydi.Filozof ve devrimci sosyalist. Polonya'da asimile olmuş bir Yahudi ailede doğup büyüdü, 1897'de Alman vatandaşı olmuş. Benim kitabım Mahmut Ertekin çevirisi, Gece Kitaplığından çıktığı için ve sitede de bu kitabın kaydı olmadığı için mecburen okuduğum kitaba en yakın yayına kaydettim. ( En azından isimleri aynı :) ) Rosa savaş yıllarındaki son tutuklanmasında 1915-1916’ya kadar, (sonrasında 1918’e kadar ek ceza almış) içeriden arkadaşlarına kart ve mektuplar yazmıştı. İşte o mektupları okuyoruz. Nasıl yazsam şöyle başlayayım: Rosa kaçtığı ve saklanmak zorunda kaldığı Zürih'de Felsefe ve Sosyoloji okudu diyor Wikipedia'sında ama bir mektubunda da arkadaşına kendisinin doğa bilimleri okuduğunu yazıyor. Öyle bir tabiatı var ki inanamazsınız normal bir insan anlattığı hapishanelerde hücrelerde demoralize olup hayata küser Rosa hiç umudunu kaybetmiyor ve hücresinin penceresinde kuş seslerini ve onların davranışlarını gözleyip kaleme alıyor. Hayvanlara olan sevgisi ve düşünce tarzı beni çok etkiledi. Böyle bir insan, bu akılda, bu tabiata sahip bir insan nasıl olur nasıl tutsak edilir? Çünkü akıllıydı, çevreye duyarlıydı ve umudu, cesareti vardı. Dünyada bu tip insanlar hep tutsak edilmiştir. Rosa da onlardan biri. Kimse böyle bir ölümü hak etmiyor. Hayat görüşlerini okuduğumuz bambaşka bir Rosa var mektuplarında. Rosa nın ölümü de çok dramatik. Önce işkence, sonra bir tüfek dipçiğiyle yere seriliyor, ardından ya Teğmen Kurt Vogel ya da Teğmen Hermann Souchon tarafından kafasından vuruldu . Cesedi Berlin deki Landwehr Kanalı'na atıldı . Sonra bulunan cesedi isimsiz olarak morga getirildi.) yazıyor Wikipedia da. Kitabın sonunda Berlin Yayımcılar Derneği’nin bir ön sözü varkiiii aman aman öve öve bitiremiyorlar. Zaten “Kel Ölür Sırma Saçlı Olur, Kör Ölür Badem Gözlü Olur “ öyle değil mi? Bu Dünyada da böyle başka ne yazayım. Bence Rosa Lüksenburg'u tanımalıyız. Rosa, seninle tanıştığıma çok memnun oldum.
September 27, 2024
عندما قرأت رواية **"روزا لوكسمبورغ"**، شعرت وكأنني أبحر في عمق فكر امرأة ثورية غيرت مسار التاريخ. الرواية تأخذني إلى حياة روزا، المناضلة الاشتراكية، التي لم تكن فقط تحمل أفكارًا جريئة، بل كانت تعيشها بكل قوة. أسلوب الكتابة كان يعكس بوضوح ذكاء روزا وعمق أفكارها حول الاشتراكية ودور الطبقة العاملة في النضال من أجل العدالة.
**العدالة الاجتماعية** تحتل مكانة مركزية في الرواية، حيث تُبرز كيف كانت روزا تؤمن بأهمية النضال من أجل حقوق العمال والمهمشين. شخصيتها تعكس إيمانها بأن التغيير الحقيقي يتطلب تضافر الجهود الشعبية، وأن الاشتراكية ليست مجرد نظرية، بل حاجة ملحة لتحقيق العدالة.
كما تسلط الرواية الضوء على **الإضراب كوسيلة للنضال**، حيث ترى روزا أن الإضرابات ليست مجرد تعبير عن الاستياء، بل هي أداة فعالة لتنظيم الجهود وتحقيق المطالب العادلة. في هذا السياق، تعكس الرواية أيضًا قضايا **المساواة بين الجنسين**، حيث كانت روزا من أوائل المدافعات عن حقوق المرأة في الحركة الاشتراكية، مؤمنة بأن تحرير المرأة يجب أن يكون جزءًا من النضال الاجتماعي.
أحد الجوانب الأكثر إثارة للإعجاب في الرواية هو **النقد الحاد للسياسات الرأسمالية**. روزا، بتعبيرها الصريح عن أفكارها، كانت تتحدى الظروف، وهو ما جعلني أشعر بتقدير كبير لقوتها وعزيمتها. كما تتفاعل الرواية مع **الأحداث التاريخية الكبرى**، مثل الحرب العالمية الأولى، موضحة كيف أثرت تلك الأحداث على أفكار روزا ورؤيتها.
قراءة الرواية كانت تجربة غنية ومؤثرة، حيث أسهمت في زيادة فهمي للأفكار الثورية وكيف يمكن للفرد أن يُحدث فرقًا حتى في أوقات الصعوبة. عشت مع روزا كل لحظة من حياتها، من إصرارها على المضي قدمًا حتى وفاتها المأساوية. الرواية ليست مجرد سرد لحياة شخص، بل هي دعوة للتفكير في العدالة الاجتماعية والأفكار التي لا تزال تهمنا اليوم.
لقد استمتعت حقًا بقراءة هذه الرواية، وأعتبرها واحدة من أفضل الكتب السياسية التي مرت عليّ. هي تجمع بين كافة القضايا المعقدة، وتقدمها بشكل مشوق يجذب القارئ. إذا كنت تبحث عن عمل يجمع بين التاريخ والفكر الثوري، فإن رواية "روزا لوكسمبورغ" ستكون خيارًا رائعًا. إنها تجسد الإرادة القوية لشخصية لم تتردد في الوقوف في وجه الظلم، مما يجعلني أشعر بالتقدير والإلهام من رحلتها.
**العدالة الاجتماعية** تحتل مكانة مركزية في الرواية، حيث تُبرز كيف كانت روزا تؤمن بأهمية النضال من أجل حقوق العمال والمهمشين. شخصيتها تعكس إيمانها بأن التغيير الحقيقي يتطلب تضافر الجهود الشعبية، وأن الاشتراكية ليست مجرد نظرية، بل حاجة ملحة لتحقيق العدالة.
كما تسلط الرواية الضوء على **الإضراب كوسيلة للنضال**، حيث ترى روزا أن الإضرابات ليست مجرد تعبير عن الاستياء، بل هي أداة فعالة لتنظيم الجهود وتحقيق المطالب العادلة. في هذا السياق، تعكس الرواية أيضًا قضايا **المساواة بين الجنسين**، حيث كانت روزا من أوائل المدافعات عن حقوق المرأة في الحركة الاشتراكية، مؤمنة بأن تحرير المرأة يجب أن يكون جزءًا من النضال الاجتماعي.
أحد الجوانب الأكثر إثارة للإعجاب في الرواية هو **النقد الحاد للسياسات الرأسمالية**. روزا، بتعبيرها الصريح عن أفكارها، كانت تتحدى الظروف، وهو ما جعلني أشعر بتقدير كبير لقوتها وعزيمتها. كما تتفاعل الرواية مع **الأحداث التاريخية الكبرى**، مثل الحرب العالمية الأولى، موضحة كيف أثرت تلك الأحداث على أفكار روزا ورؤيتها.
قراءة الرواية كانت تجربة غنية ومؤثرة، حيث أسهمت في زيادة فهمي للأفكار الثورية وكيف يمكن للفرد أن يُحدث فرقًا حتى في أوقات الصعوبة. عشت مع روزا كل لحظة من حياتها، من إصرارها على المضي قدمًا حتى وفاتها المأساوية. الرواية ليست مجرد سرد لحياة شخص، بل هي دعوة للتفكير في العدالة الاجتماعية والأفكار التي لا تزال تهمنا اليوم.
لقد استمتعت حقًا بقراءة هذه الرواية، وأعتبرها واحدة من أفضل الكتب السياسية التي مرت عليّ. هي تجمع بين كافة القضايا المعقدة، وتقدمها بشكل مشوق يجذب القارئ. إذا كنت تبحث عن عمل يجمع بين التاريخ والفكر الثوري، فإن رواية "روزا لوكسمبورغ" ستكون خيارًا رائعًا. إنها تجسد الإرادة القوية لشخصية لم تتردد في الوقوف في وجه الظلم، مما يجعلني أشعر بالتقدير والإلهام من رحلتها.
March 1, 2021
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June 30, 2025
These letters from Rosa to her intimate friends are relatively interesting, but I cannot say I remember something from them, my measure of giving them more than 3 stars.
October 14, 2014
A bit too many details of her interpersonal life and struggles, and observations on the beauty of life, and too little on the revolutionary politics she lived and breathed. But, I imagine the editors had a hard job to balance the politics that one expects from Rosa and the feelings one expects from a collection of letters. A fine selection all in all.
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