Dear President Lula da Silva, When I visited you in prison on August 30, 2018, in the brief time that the visit lasted I experienced a whirlwind of ideas and emotions that remain as vivid today as they were then. A short time before, we had been together at the World...
‘It cannot be denied that the direct cause leading the popular masses into the socialist movement is precisely the “unjust” mode of distribution characteristic of capitalism’ (Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution) ‘While they’re standing in the...
It is a sign of Rosa Luxemburg’s prescience and far-sightedness as a scholar and intellectual that a genocide that was ignored by most of the world, the German genocide of 80% of the Herero population of South-West Africa (now Namibia) of the early 20th century, did...
“As such so long as imperialistic world policies determine and regulate the inner and other outer life of the nation, there can be no ‘national self-determination’ either in war or peace. “(Rosa Luxemburg, The Crisis of German Social Democracy (1915)) Rosa...
In remarking upon the international legal status of lands acquired by the British Empire, John Westlake, in many ways the quintessential Victorian jurist, declared India to be ‘a peculiar case of conquest, operating by assumption and acquiescence’.1 He contrasted this...
