An online symposium hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, a member organisation of transform! europe, and the International Rosa Luxemburg Society in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of her birth.
For further information, click here (website of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation).
Programme
5 March
11.15: Opening remarks for day 2 from Loren Balhorn (RLS)
11:30: Rosa Luxemburg and the Challenge of Political Strategy (tbc)
Chair: Johanna Bussemer
- Lea Ypi
- Michael Brie
- Joshua Wavrant (tbc)
14:00: Rosa Luxemburg and the Written Word
Chair: Julia Killet
- Kate Evans, “Writing Red Rosa: creating the graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg”
- Helen Scott, “Rosa Luxemburg’s Literary Analysis”
- Dana Mills, “‘By itself every book is something terrible unapproachable’: Rosa Luxemburg as a reader & culture enthusiast”
16:00: Rosa Luxemburg Today: The Accumulation of Capital and The Mass Strike in the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism
Chair: Ingo Schmidt
- Riccardo Bellofiore, “Stagnation and progress in Marxism after Rosa Luxemburg”
- Radhika Desai, “Capitalist contradictions and imperialism in Rosa Luxemburg’s thought”
- Rida Vaquas, “Rosa Luxemburg’s political mass strike and the international labour movement today”
- Robert Ovetz, “The continuing relevance of The Mass Strike: Reading Rosa Luxemburg as strategy”
18.00: Closing keynote presentation by Peter Hudis, “Using Rosa Luxemburg to understand racialized capitalism”