The Freedom to Think Differently: Rosa Luxemburg and Todays Crisis (part 1 of 3)

Prof. Sandra Rein (University of Alberta, Canada)

The Freedom to Think Differently: Rosa Luxemburg and Todays Crisis

Sandra Rein advances her argument by calling for a re-engagement with Rosa Luxemburgs work in analyzing the current economic moment. Her discussion is guided by two main goals. The first is to make the argument for Rosa Luxemburgs relevance and on-going salience for political economy and philosophy in a general sense. The second goal is to turn Luxemburgs critical gaze to the relations that define global capitalism today with the objective of identifying the possibilities for realizing human freedom. Rein concludes by proposing key areas of insight and potential research area based on her presentation.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Capitalism
• Socialism
• Mass Unemployment
• Rosa Luxemburg
• Imperialism

[hydromorphineIV]

@Sqaaak Luxemburg was a marxist and was basically what people call left communism. Though i don't agree with the term but then again it depends on how you define communism. She's often cited as a democratic socialist. I think she was a socialist and a marxist that was far ahead of her time. Also Marx was not a asset of the british empire and neither was Lenin. Both especially intenesely disliked imperialism.

[Sqaaak]

Rosa Luxemburg is anything but a Marxist. Marx was an asset of the British imperial oligarchy & its monarchy, controlled by Lord Shelburne & his coterie. Lenin, equally, was caught in the same British-imperial trap. Rosa Luxemburg was (and is) absolutely not a Marxist, but, for sure, an anti-imperialist, perhaps the greatest of her time; she was a genius.

I refer the reader to the principal anti-British-empire genius, the chief economic advisor to the great Abraham Lincoln, Henry C. Carey.

[LowestOftheDead]

This is wonderful. Rosa Luxemburg is a wholly undervalued theorist, philosopher, and activist. Why isn't there more commentary on this video? It's so relevant to our contemporaneous situation.

[JonnyBrotherJr]

Where is Part 2? :(