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Tommy4ever
26th April 2011, 21:57
Does anyone know of a good biography about Rosa?
graymouser
26th April 2011, 22:07
Paul Frölich's Rosa Luxemburg (just re-released in the US by Haymarket Books) is an excellent biography. It does a very good job of settling her in her time period, and discussing both her activity and her ideas. Highly recommended, and a good entree for a reader to take a more educated look at her writing.
Proukunin
26th April 2011, 22:09
Idk about biographies but I do know there is a movie about her life called Rosa Luxembourg. I think it might've been made in the 80's. I heard it was okay. It probably wont be good as an actual book though.
NoOneIsIllegal
27th April 2011, 02:30
Paul Frölich's Rosa Luxemburg (just re-released in the US by Haymarket Books) is an excellent biography. It does a very good job of settling her in her time period, and discussing both her activity and her ideas. Highly recommended, and a good entree for a reader to take a more educated look at her writing.
This book is by far the best option. I second it.

http://eb.tncdn.net/dyn/200/978/160/8460748.jpg
http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Rosa-Luxemburg
Os Cangaceiros
27th April 2011, 02:50
Idk about biographies but I do know there is a movie about her life called Rosa Luxembourg. I think it might've been made in the 80's. I heard it was okay. It probably wont be good as an actual book though.

It was made in 1986, and yeah, it is good. Barbara Sukowa actually looks a little like the real Luxemburg in my opinion, plus they got actors to play Liebknecht, Kautsky and Bebel who resembled those individuals, kinda. Gave a nice portrayal of Luxemburg as both a militant who was imprisoned in, like, a dozen seperate institutions over the course of her life, and also someone with her own (often frusterated) personal life outside of politics. Of course, I don't really know much about the real Rosa Luxemburg, so I don't know how much of that was embellished for the film, but still, it was entertaining. Long movie, though.
The Idler
28th April 2011, 22:05
The SWP are doing A Rebel's Guide to Rosa Luxemburg to be released in the next few weeks.