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the Red bear
5th May 2015, 18:13
Is there any luxemburgist parties in the UK as there only appears to be tankies or leninists ?

motion denied
6th May 2015, 04:01
There's no such thing as 'Luxemburgism' tbh. Most people who call themselves that do following two texts: Organizational Questions of Russian Social-Democracy, which Lenin disavowed right away as did Luxemburg herself later on and her pamphlet on the Russian Revolution, which hardly conforms on a separated tendency.

Maybe the Accumulation of capital is her most innovating book. Still, no grounds for 'Luxemburgism'.

That said, nearly everyone try to hop on the martyr horse. Some trots are into Luxemburg because of this (https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1932/06/luxemberg.htm) (I like the Portuguese translation better) ):

#FF0000
6th May 2015, 04:20
Yeah, luxemburgism isn't a distinct tendency. If you're looking for an alternative, maybe consider the CPGB (the one that prints the Weekly Worker, not the Marxist-Leninist one)

Q
6th May 2015, 04:41
Yeah, luxemburgism isn't a distinct tendency. If you're looking for an alternative, maybe consider the CPGB (the one that prints the Weekly Worker, not the Marxist-Leninist one)
I agree. Luxemburg was an 'orthodox' Marxist (http://www.revleft.com/vb/blog.php?b=19207), although she had a somewhat stronger focus on strikist strategies. The CPGB (http://cpgb.org.uk/) (Weekly Worker (http://weeklyworker.co.uk/) page here) seems to be your best bet.

Tim Cornelis
6th May 2015, 12:11
What, you don't like these nice folks?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2402165916_cb5bbf28d7_o.jpg

motion denied
6th May 2015, 16:45
^ One of the greatest pictures of our time.

Blake's Baby
6th May 2015, 18:49
I'd say that everything Luxemburg wrote that has stood the test of time has been assimilated by the Communist Left.

I claimed to be a Luxemburgist for a while. Unlike most people, it wasn't anti-Leninism that animated me, but precisely her economics ('Accumulation of Capital', which however is accepted by almost no-one, the ICC being the only group that I can think of that takes a Luxemburgist stance on economics), and her position on the national question, as outlined in the Junius Pamphlet (for instance). I don't see the CPGB as being 'Luxemburgist' on the national question, given their past support for the KLA for example.