Rosa Luxemburg at 150. Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy

Source: Rosa-Luxembug-Foundation

Online Symposium
Rosa Luxemburg at 150. Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy
An online symposium hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, a member organisation of transform! europe, and the International Rosa Luxemburg Society in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of her birth.
For further information, click here (website of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation).

11.15: Opening remarks for day 2 from Loren Balhorn (RLS)

11:30: Rosa Luxemburg and the Challenge of Political Strategy (tbc)
Chair: Johanna Bussemer

14:00: Rosa Luxemburg and the Written Word
Chair: Julia Killet

Kate Evans, “Writing Red Rosa: creating the graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg”
Helen Scott, “Rosa Luxemburg’s Literary Analysis”
Dana Mills, “‘By itself every book is something terrible unapproachable’: Rosa Luxemburg as a reader & culture enthusiast”

16:00: Rosa Luxemburg Today: The Accumulation of Capital and The Mass Strike in the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism
Chair: Ingo Schmidt

Riccardo Bellofiore, “Stagnation and progress in Marxism after Rosa Luxemburg”
Radhika Desai, “Capitalist contradictions and imperialism in Rosa Luxemburg’s thought”
Rida Vaquas, “Rosa Luxemburg’s political mass strike and the international labour movement today”
Robert Ovetz, “The continuing relevance of The Mass Strike: Reading Rosa Luxemburg as strategy”

18.00: Closing keynote presentation by Peter Hudis, “Using Rosa Luxemburg to understand racialized capitalism”