I'm going to start reading Rosa Luxembourg

[Bostana]

I'm going to start reading Rosa Luxembourg and I want to know if there is a certain book I should start with, or ignore, etc, etc.

Thanks Comrades :)

[JPSartre12]

"Reform or Revolution" is a good one, as is "The Mass Strike".

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

If you've got a few bucks to throw down, there's a pretty good Pluto Press anthology of sorts - a mix of articles, letters, and excerpts from her longer works. I'm pretty sure it's just called "Socialism or Barbarism: The Selected Writings of Rosa Luxembourg" or something pretty close to that. I read it a few months ago and enjoyed it quite a bit, since it offered a nice mix of "theory" and "personality".

[svenne]

A lot of her more famous texts are pretty short. If you've got access to a printer, you could print out say, The mass strike and The organizational questions of the russian social democracy (which i guess could be called two of her more influental works), and it would only take 20 to 30 A4 pages (if you shrink the text size a bit). The articles are even shorter, and can honestly be read on a computer screen. If you're interested in the relation between Lenin, Luxemburg and the russian revolution, you could read her book about the russian revolution, simply called... The russian revolution. Also, remember that a lot of her books and pamhlettes are part of a discussion in the german or global socialist movement, so it's always a good idea to read some Lenin too. Ignore Kautsky and Bernstein, since nobody really cares about them (outside Revleft and some strange, british, party).

[Brutus]

Ignore Kautsky
Why? Kautsky was actually referred to as the 'pope of Marxism', so don't just act like his works are useless just because he went full on social democrat in 1914. But this is about Rosa, so I will echo JP and say reform or revolution and the mass strike.
The dialectics of spontaneity is a good read too

[Comrade #138672]

The Accumulation of Capital.

Focuses primarily on political economics.

[Art Vandelay]

The accumulation of capital is a good read on economics from what I hear. I'm not really a fan of the mass strike, but I read reform or revolution when I was younger and remember liking it.

[Blake's Baby]

The Accumulation is very long, quite complicated, and hugely controversial. There are literally only about 200 people on the planet who believe it (I'm one of them, and even I think she was wrong about something, I'm just not sure what). So though I agree it's really important I'm not sure I could recommend it as an introductory text. Unless it's to someone who's really into economics (I'm not).

[JPSartre12]

Also, if you are going to read Luxembourg, I would also recommend reading some Bernstein. He's very controversial in the Marxist community because he was one of the founders of major social democratic theory, but reading some of Luxembourg's polemics against him in their "great revisionist debate", as it's called, helps give her ideas definition in a larger context.