In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg - (Historical Materialism) by Paul Levi (Paperback)

About the Book

Long maligned by scholars of Communist history, this volume lets Paul Levi's writings during the German Revolution speak for themselves.

Book Synopsis

Long maligned by scholars of Communist history, this volume lets Paul Levi's writings during the German Revolution speak for themselves.

Review Quotes

"With this skillfully edited collection of Levi's speeches and writings, Fernbach, long established as a leading student of Marxism, makes a major contribution to understanding the Left in Europe in the years after WW I.
Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."
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"Levi's writings in English ... allow English-reading socialists to obtain a fuller understanding of the German revolutionary period after the First World War, a period rich in lessons for anti-capitalists today. ... David Fernbach [has] done a service to the left in making them available to the English reader.
Stuart King, in Permanent Revolution, vol. 22

About the Author

David Fernbach studied at London School of Economics. He is a freelance writer, editor and translator. Publications include the three-volume edition of Karl Marx's Political Writings (Penguin 1973-4, reissued Verso 2010), and The Spiral Path: a gay contribution to human survival (1981). Translations include Marx's Capital Volumes Two and Three, and works by Georg Lukacs, Rudolf Bahro, Boris Groys, Nicos Poulantzas, Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière.

Paul Levi (1886 1930) was a long time friend and sometimes lawyer to Rosa Luxemburg. Levi became one of the leading members of the German Communist Party, and an active participant in the Communist International.