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bad ideas actualised by alcohol
6th May 2013, 19:06
As some of you may know, in July the first volume of the Collected Works of Rosa Luxemburg will be released by Verso.
If we have to believe historicalmaterialism "most of these writings—as much as 80 per cent—have never before appeared in English, and some will be published for the first time anywhere". This thus could be a major change in our perception of Luxemburg and Marxism even.

This first volume of Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings I, will contain some of Luxemburg’s most important writings on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism and pre-capitalist economic formations, most of which have never before appeared in English. In addition to including a new translation of her doctoral dissertation, The Industrial Development of Poland, it will include the first complete English translation of her Introduction to Political Economy, which explores (among other issues) the impact of capitalist commodity production and industrialization upon non-capitalist social strata in the developing world.
The volume will also include ten recently discovered manuscripts, all of which will appear in English for the first time.
The manuscripts that have been discovered are on the history of ancient, medieval, and early modern societies, Marx’s Capital, and the causes and consequences of capitalist crises.

Now here's the problem, for this 14 volume serie there's money needed. A big part of the goal has been achieved but more is always useful, so here people can contribute: http://toledotranslationfund.org/project/the-complete-works-of-rosa-luxemburg/

Here is another text about this: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/appeal-for-rosa-luxemburg-complete-works

And Verso's website:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/1168-the-complete-works-of-rosa-luxemburg-volume-1

bad ideas actualised by alcohol
6th May 2013, 19:48
Title of course should've been 'complete works'.

The Idler
6th May 2013, 23:01
Other collected works include


Rosa Luxemburg Speaks by Mary Alice Waters
Rosa Luxemburg Reader by Kevin Anderson
The Essential Rosa Luxemburg by Helen Scott

bad ideas actualised by alcohol
6th May 2013, 23:10
Of course but I assume everything in there will be in the Complete Works.

The Idler
7th May 2013, 19:58
Someone commented on verso about getting a budget paperback which they confirmed was in the works. can't believe the ebook though is so expensive.

Anyway, for those on a budget or with limited space/time, hope the 3 I mentioned is useful. All content will presumably appear in the Complete Verso.

l'Enfermé
7th May 2013, 20:06
So primarily her obscure writings on political economy and historical stuff?

The Idler
8th May 2013, 19:02
Looked at the fundraising, did not realise it cost 30,000 to do something like this.