Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Revisiting her Radical Life and Legacy

Opening keynote of the conference “Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy”, held on 4–5 March 2021. Opening remarks from Johanna Bussemer (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) and Ottokar Luban (International Rosa Luxemburg Society) followed by Michael Löwy‘s keynote presentation.

A panel held as part of the online symposium “Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy” hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the International Rosa Luxemburg Society on 4–5 March 2021.

Chair: Sobhanlal Datta Gupta

Panellists:

• Xiong Min, “What can Rosa Luxemburg tell us about being an intellectual today?”
• Ravi Kumar, “Rosa Luxemburg and the pedagogy of revolution: reflections from the Indian Left”
• Sibok Chang, “Rosa Luxemburg’s reception and impact in Korea”
• Michael R. Kraetke, “Rosa Luxemburg’s heterodox view on the Global South”

A panel held as part of the online symposium “Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy” hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the International Rosa Luxemburg Society on 4–5 March 2021.

Chair: Sandra Rein

Panellists:

• Ankica Čakardić, “What is Luxemburgian feminism?”
• Frigga Haug, “How to use Luxemburg’s thoughts for feminist politics?”

A panel held as part of the online symposium “Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy” hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the International Rosa Luxemburg Society on 4–5 March 2021.

Chair: Pablo Slavin

Panellists:

• Rosa Rosa Gomes, “An analysis of the Brazilian Left from Luxemburg’s point of view”
• Marina Kabat, “Rosa Luxemburg, the mass strike debate, and its implications for understanding contemporary labor unrest and political dynamics in Latin America”
• Juliana Tumini, “The role of the right to the city as an instrument of revolution in Latin America: A view from Rosa Luxemburg’s perspective”
• Tomás Várnagy, “Rosa Luxemburg, a Central European revolutionary”

Book launch for “Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg”, held as part of the online symposium “Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy” hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the International Rosa Luxemburg on 4–5 March 2021.

Chair: Albert Scharenberg

Panellists:

• Drucilla Cornell and Jane Gordon, “‘I Have a Thousand More Things I Want to Say to You’: An Introduction to Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg”
• Paget Henry, “Claudia Jones, Political Economy, and the Creolizing of Rosa Luxemburg”
• Robin D.G. Kelley, “Walter Rodney’s Russian Revolution and the Curious Case of Rosa Luxemburg”
• Siddhant Issar and John McMahon, “Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness”

A panel held as part of the online symposium “Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy” hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the International Rosa Luxemburg Society on 4–5 March 2021.

Chair: Johanna Bussemer

Panellists:

• Lea Ypi
• Michael Brie
• Joshua Wavrant

A panel held as part of the online symposium “Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy” hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the International Rosa Luxemburg Society on 4–5 March 2021.

Chair: Julia Killet

Panellists:

• 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”

A panel held as part of the online symposium “Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy” hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the International Rosa Luxemburg Society on 4–5 March 2021.

Chair: Ingo Schmidt

Panellists:

• 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”

Closing keynote presentation by on “Using Rosa Luxemburg to Understand Racialized Capitalism” by Peter Hudis, General Editor of the Collected Works of Rosa Luxemburg. Held as part of the online symposium “Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy” hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the International Rosa Luxemburg Society on 4–5 March 2021.