The Junius pamphlet : the crisis in the German social democracy February - April 1915

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Luxemburg, Rosa. The Junius pamphlet : the crisis in the German social democracy February - April 1915. London: The Merlin Press, August 1967. Paperback, VG. White covers, age discoloured to edges and spine, some shelfwear to edges and corners. Slight damage to base of spine. Binding strong. 97pp., contents clean and bright. Rosa Luxemburg (5 March 1871 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. The Junius Pamphlet was written in 1915 while she was in prison, against the brutality of the First World War. The actual title of the work was The Crisis of German Social Democracy but she used the pen-name Junius to avoid prosecution, and this became the basis of the work s popular name. The name Junius was apparently a reference to Lucius Junius Brutus, a hero of the Roman Republic. Luxemburg had the work smuggled out of prison and it was first published in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland. Her critique of the collapse of the Second International in the face of world war proved influential among political activists looking for a way of reconstituting a revolutionary Marxist movement. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1690486581595

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