Originally posted by Luís Henrique+February 07, 2007 09:51 am--> (Luís Henrique @ February 07, 2007 09:51 am)
[email protected] 06, 2007 11:17 pm
Luxembourgism is basically left communist or council communism. It was more or less an alternative to Marxist-Leninist doctrine.
That would be what council communists would like us to believe, but, no, it is not true.
Luís Henriue [/b]
Well, it is certainly untrue to say that Rosa was a councilist as I don't think the term was even used during her lifetime. She was, however, a part of the left wing of the German Party alongside the currents that later became the left, and council communists. She was murdered before the split in the KPD, so it is pretty pointless to speculate about, which side she would have taken. Her analysis of imperialism, and the concept of decadence certainly form the basis of the left/council communist currents. She sided with the left on the trade union question, but disagreed with them on the parliamentary question. The period of her political life was one of immense change within the workers movement. It is important to remember that at the opening of the first world war, the groups that would later develop into the Leninist, Trotskyist, Bordigist, Left-Communist, and Councilist tendencies were members of the Second International linked more by the fight against revisionism than they were separated by differences that would later emerge between them.
On reflection though I think that it is possible to say that there is a qualities difference between Lenin, and Luxembourg's theories of imperialism, and that the position that the councilists held, and the communist left holds today are based on a development of her work in the Janus pamphlet.
Devrim