Paris International Conference on Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg

PARIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROSA LUXEMBURG

[Paris] International Conference on Rosa Luxemburg

Friday, October 4, 2013

Paris, Sorbonne, October 4 and 5, 2013

Conference Languages: French and English with Simultaneous Translation

Rosa Luxemburg’s Concepts of Democracy and Revolution

Sponsored by the International Rosa Luxemburg Society

One of the most important contributions of Rosa Luxemburg to modern Marxist thought is her refusal to separate the concepts of “democracy” and “revolution”. This approach is developed in a) her criticism of the limits of bourgeois democracy, b) her conception of the revolutionary struggle as democratic self-emancipation of the great masses, c) her vision of socialist democracy with the workers’ councils’ system as a possible form of “dictatorship of the proletariat”, and d) her firm insistence – in discussion with Russian revolutionaries – on the importance of democratic freedoms in the transition towards socialism.

We will deal with the question of democracy in her writings on Marxism, on political economy and on the national question (self-administration and national autonomy as democratic solutions).

These are issues that remain relevant at the beginning of the 21st Century. The aim of the Conference will be not only to analyze the historical aspects and the texts themselves, but also the political significance of these issues, in an epoch that sees a crisis of democracy within the context of crisis in capitalist civilization.

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