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This first extensive survey of the work of Petra Blaisse, the internationally known Dutch garden and interior designer, comes at the right time. Blaisse, who has been collaborating with Rem Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture and other major architectural concerns for many years, just finished her largest and best-known project in the U.S., the much-lauded Seattle Public Library's gardens and interior. A "library" of local plant life surrounds the building, and a tiled carpet designed after a garden leads patrons in. Blaisse is passionate about uniting interior and exterior space. She sees them as continuous, and says of her unusual synergy of design roles, that "They are totally different professions, yet they are completely connected: open the window and the garden comes in, the curtain comes out." Her work, situated in the margin between design and architecture, indicates new directions and possibilities for each field. A conversation between Blaisse and curator Kayoko Ota runs throughout Inside Outside, while the balance of the book documents 20 projects ranging from contained interior interventions to larger landscape designs, each described in photography, sketches and drawings.
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"Let's be realists, let's dream the impossible." Che Guevara's words summarize the radical vision of the four famous rebels presented in this book: Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto, Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution and Che Guevara's Socialism and Humanity. Far from being lifeless historical documents, these manifestos for revolution will resonate with a new generation also seeking a better world.
"The world described by Marx and Engels . . . is recognizably the world we live in 150 years later."-Eric Hobsbawm
"Rosa Luxemburg was a brilliant, brave and independent woman, passionately internationalist and antiwar, a believer in the people's 'spontaneity' in the cause of freedom; a woman who saw herself as Marx's philosophical heir."-Adrienne Rich
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All three writings share in common a revolutionary spark.......2005-08-11
Manifesto: Three Classic Essays On How To Change The World collects "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "Reform or Revolution" by Rosa Luxemburg, and "Socialism and Man in Cuba" by Ernesto Che Guevara. All three writings share in common a revolutionary spark; here are ideas that transformed the world, with repercussions resonating to the modern day and beyond. A preface, introduction, and brief notes on the contributors round out this vital collection concerning political power, social consciousness, and the need for societal transformation, especially recommended for library and educational reference shelves.
All three writings share in common a revolutionary spark.......2005-08-11
Manifesto: Three Classic Essays On How To Change The World collects "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "Reform or Revolution" by Rosa Luxemburg, and "Socialism and Man in Cuba" by Ernesto Che Guevara. All three writings share in common a revolutionary spark; here are ideas that transformed the world, with repercussions resonating to the modern day and beyond. A preface, introduction, and brief notes on the contributors round out this vital collection concerning political power, social consciousness, and the need for societal transformation, especially recommended for library and educational reference shelves.
All three writings share in common a revolutionary spark.......2005-08-11
Manifesto: Three Classic Essays On How To Change The World collects "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "Reform or Revolution" by Rosa Luxemburg, and "Socialism and Man in Cuba" by Ernesto Che Guevara. All three writings share in common a revolutionary spark; here are ideas that transformed the world, with repercussions resonating to the modern day and beyond. A preface, introduction, and brief notes on the contributors round out this vital collection concerning political power, social consciousness, and the need for societal transformation, especially recommended for library and educational reference shelves.
Powerful Insight Into Marxist Views & Political History.......2005-07-29
Three very insightful essays. You can certainly learn and gain valuable insight to the ideals that literally have changed the world in many ways. Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto; Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution and Che Guevara's Socialism and Man in Cuba.
I really think this book is very enlightening and is a highly valuable read. And with that, I would like to comment on the second essay, the essay by the Polish Jew and political activist who attended Zurich University, Rosa Luxemburg. This essay was published in 1898, nineteen years before the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
Rosa Luxemburg's essay consists of an attack on Eduard Bernstein's book entitled "Problems of Socialism," Seen from today's lenses reveals her erroneous absolute and dogmatic views, lacking in comparison to the logic of Bernstein. It's so obvious from the scientific Marxist views. Marx's and Engels views were based on rational science, Hegelian dialectics and like science, an exact blueprint of rational analysis. Today they call this "vulgar Marxism" and few follow it.(You can find a good analysis in Allan Bloom's, Closing the American Mind). Marxism today is not based on an exact science. That is the old view, the original view. And the obvious result of her attack on Bernstein is that everything she has attacked has come true, her defense for Absolutism, for exact science in economic history through Hegelian dialectics has proven false and inaccurate. Bernstein, on the other hand, has proven the greater prophet. And the answer lies in Luxemburg's very words of attack. In this she attacks him for his integral approach of aperspectivism in integrating multiple paradigms which allow the relative nature and uncertainty of the various shades and levels of both Liberal Democracy and Socialism. Bernstein's sees the differing aspects and refutes absolutism in Marxist science and dogmatism in its Hegelian nature. History, nor economic history, is not an exact science. And If I may take this a step further there are levels of subjectivity, objectivity, cultural and social aspects or the I, We and It (&Its) (the big three or the 4 Quadrants of Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology).
Bernstein sees the problems of socialism and the need for liberal democracy to reform slowly, even rejecting both (vulgar or original scientific, Hegelian) Marxism and Socialism and choosing to remain a liberal democracy but with socialist-liberal facets of nature (Roosevelt's domestic policies for instance), while Luxemburg seeing Marxism as an exact science sees revolution the only real way to bring forth Socialism. And although both thinkers are basically reduction in inter-objective social systems or political system theories, there still exists a major difference between both and that 150 years of time has vindicated (relativlty speaking: the low wages, poor and homeless in the U.S. are in large numbers) Bernstein's flexible and integral insight with greater value than Luxemburg's "flatland," which in Integral Psychology means interpreting realty or in this case, economic political history, as only in objective terms, failing to understand its relativity in dealing with the individual and collective human subjective nature.
AND now I will contradict myself: Luxemburg was right, Bernstein was not. After reading Howard Zinn's Peoples History of the United States, it is evident; the only reforms come from revolution. Socialism is always adamantly fought by the wealthy, compromises are extremely rare.
Now the essay by Che Geverra is the only without such a materialistic, Hegelian science and Marxist exactitude of empirical societal observation on economic meaning. It is much less dogmatic and in that sense less scientific, being much more utilitarian in practical means to achieve a socialist revolution and common sharing good of the Cuban society.
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- ROSA LUXEMBURG-THE ROSE OF THE REVOLUTION
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Rosa Luxemburg: A Life for the International (Berg Women's Series)
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ROSA LUXEMBURG-THE ROSE OF THE REVOLUTION .......2007-03-09
MARCH IS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
If you need to know in depth, and you should, what Rosa Luxemburg's contributions to Marxist theory were and about her struggles within various European left-wing socialist parties to fight for her revolutionary perspective then this is not the book for you. You need to read the compilation of her own works edited in Rosa Luxemburg Speaks or read one of her eminent political biographers like P. Froelich or M. Nettl. If, however, you need a short primer about Rosa's theories and political struggles then this book can provide some insights about what it was like to be a leading revolutionary socialist woman in early 20th century Europe.
Mr. Abraham takes some trouble to go through the details of Rosa Luxemburg's political education in the early socialist movement in Poland; her rise in the German Social Democratic Party that was her home base for most of her career before her assassination by right-wing soldiers in 1919; and, her various trials and tribulations in connection with the Bolsheviks, particularly over the question of the national right to self-determination for Poland and other oppressed nations. He, thankfully, spends far less time on Rosa's personal life than that of Ms. Elizabeth Ettinger (see all my reviews) whose biography of Rosa while admirable in its way nevertheless almost consciously avoids politics.
I take issue with Mr. Abraham on two points, at least in part. He off-handedly tries to sneak Rosa into the feminist camp. While feminism may be the fashion in the late 20th and early 21st century it is not belaboring the point to note the contempt Rosa held for the feminism of her time. One cannot in fact understand her political career other than as one of seeing that women's liberation would occur though socialist revolution, or not at all. That, dear reader, has nothing to do with feminism. The second point is his emphasis on the efforts that Rosa made to create a `third way' for Marxist development away from the apparent sterility of bureaucratic German social democracy and the alleged rigidity of Russian Bolshevism. This again is more of a posthumous attempt to use Luxemburg's orthodox Marxist approach to create something more than her theoretical projections would warrant. Otherwise what is one to make of her long term bloc with those very Bolsheviks in the pre-World War I period and of her almost pathological fear of breaking with the German SPD when it was time, in fact past time, to do so. I will definitely take arguments on that one.
I read political biographies mainly to get a background look at what makes the subject of the biography tick. After reading this book it struck me, as it did after reading Ms. Ettinger's more personal account, that even revolutionaries, and particularly revolutionary women, cannot fully transcend the facts of their personal upbringing and their times. Clearly, Rosa was a liberated woman by any measure. However, I got the overwhelming feeling that she could never fully transcend the outsiderness of being Jewish or of the terrible strain of breaking free of the mores of Victorian Europe. It may be a truism of Marxism but true nevertheless that it will take some generations before the `new' man and women fully take on the attributes of socialist comradeship but after reading this book it is also clear that even the `vanguard' intellectuals of the movement can only go so far in transcending their capitalist environment. Nevertheless, Remember Rosa Luxemburg-the Rose of the Revolution.
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- Berlin noir
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Rosa: A Novel
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A murdered revolutionary . . .
A vicious serial killer . . .
A city in chaos . . .
All lead to Rosa.
In the last days of the First World War, socialist revolution swept across Germany, sending Kaiser Wilhelm into exile and transforming Berlin into a battleground. But for Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner and his young assistant, Hans Fichte, the revolution is a mere inconvenience. Four women from the slums of Berlin have turned up dead, all with identical markings etched into their backs, and Hoffner and Fichte have spent the better part of six weeks trying to crack the bizarre case.
Things take a troubling turn when the political police begin to show an interest in Hoffner’s investigation. Hoffner has no idea why the Polpo would want to get their hands dirty with a serial murderer, until he is shown the lifeless body of Rosa Luxemburg, the same eerie markings on her back. Rumors abound that Rosa, one of the leaders of the suppressed socialist uprising, was assassinated by an angry mob, but the pattern carved into her back tells a different story.
In his remarkable new thriller, Jonathan Rabb paints a vivid, unforgettable picture of a city and a people poised between the chaos of the First World War and the darkness to come, a time when political thugs, petty thieves, and charismatic leaders rushed to fill the void left behind. Into this gap steps Hoffner, who, while battling his own personal demons, is still determined to find out who is preying on the women of Berlin, even as he gets drawn deeper into the mystery surrounding Rosa’s death. Hoffner’s search for the killer leads him on a dark and twisted journey through the battle-scarred streets of the city, where he soon discovers that nothing is as it appears. And while he finds allies in unexpected places, he is met at every turn by men who will stop at nothing to keep him from finding out the truth about Rosa.
A genuine mystery at the time, Rosa’s fate has continued to prompt speculation to this day. Rabb’s taut political thriller imagines one strikingly real possibility. With his first two novels, The Overseer and The Book of Q, Rabb proved that he had a talent not only for writing suspenseful narratives but for illuminating the darkest corners of history as well. With Rosa, his finest work, he brings to life a world capital on the brink of chaos, a tragic revolutionary who both inspired and enraged, and a compellingly complex, world-weary, deeply flawed but brilliant inspector named Nikolai Hoffner.
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Berlin noir.......2007-03-05
Berlin, after WW1, its order shaken by an abortive socialist revolution, its government struggling to maintain balance between left and right. A serial murderer leaving a trail of corpses: mutilated women, one of whom is the communist activist Rosa Luxemburg. A police department whose two branches, Kripo (criminal police) and Polpo (political), appear to be waging their own internal war. And as anti-hero, an independent-minded detective inspector, Nicolai Hoffner, who refuses to be diverted from the pursuit of truth, but who is far from heroic in his private life. Jonathan Rabb has written a magnificent roman noir, painting a grimy picture of postwar Berlin and the moral uncertainties of the period -- including the first stirrings of anti-semitism as a political tool. While this is a detective story at heart, it is also historically informative on one hand and touched with deep humanity on the other, easily achieving for post-WW1 Berlin what Joseph Kanon had not quite managed to do for the post-WW2 city in THE GOOD GERMAN.
Two small notes on the preliminary material. The map of Berlin has very few names on it, and can be more of a frustration than a help to those like me who do not know the city. On the other hand, the beautiful reproduction of a nude drawing by Käthe Kollwitz (who appears briefly as a character in the novel) provides a welcome touchstone of beauty and repose to offset the violent moments in the story.
Fascinating.......2005-09-27
I thought this was a really good book. I didn't know anything about 1919 Berlin or Rosa Luxemburg who was a social revolutionary. I thought the author did a very good job of making her into a character even though she turns out to be dead on page one. The best character was the detective who solves the crime. He did some very questionable things (especially to his partner), but I still wanted him to succeed. This was a very dark book, but that seemed to fit too. I would recommend Rosa and Jonathan Rabb. L. Marguiles
Superb Piece of Fiction.......2005-07-11
Mr. Rabb's handling and control of the language is superb, creating whole characters with a few short strokes and putting a reader into the story without unnecessary over-description. The major characters are full and rounded, complemented by wholly realised minor ones.
A superb political mystery, introducing the complex police inspector Nikolai Hoffner in the Berlin of 1919, as he investigates the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and several other women. How he pieces together what appears to this reader to be a unique murder plot, and how the murders are tied to the politics of the day and to their far-reaching ramifications, is forcefully compelling.
The City of Berlin, through beautifully spun descriptions (clearly well researched) becomes just as powerful a character in the drama as Hoffner's manoeuvrings to pursue the villain and outwit his politically connected and motivated bosses. Yet for all of his professional abilities, Hoffner has stunning flaws of a very human nature, particularly as regards his family, making him empathetic, puzzling and all too human. One certainly can come to say, "I know this man".
The puzzle is of course brilliantly revealed, yet with an ending quite different from what one might expect as the political ramifications carry a weight of their own.
For those who love a dark political mystery, superbly realised, with an all too human protagonist, this is a five-star read.
Restoring historical fiction's good name........2005-07-05
Jonathan Rabb's latest novel arrives just in time to rescue us from the historical-fiction-lite style of Dan Brown and his imitators. Rosa is everything a historical novel should be, and I think it deserves to be mentioned among the very best works in the genre. Rabb makes 1919 Berlin come alive, and with a light touch. The details are never forced, and the history is never pedantic--which is no small feat when one considers that Rosa takes place against an incredibly complex historico-political landscape.
The best thing about the novel, though, are its characters. Rabb writes beautifully, and his characters have real depth and humanity. He never settles for a stereotype or cardboard cut out. (The main protagonist, Nikolai Hoffner, for example, is reminiscent of Graham Greene's tortured, flawed, well-meaning anti-heroes.) As a result, Rosa is so much more than the recent crop of historically-inflected campfire-stories like the Da Vinci Code. It is just compelling, well-written fiction.
Without question, fans of historical fiction should check out Rosa. But I would also recommend it to those looking for good, new literary fiction who may not otherwise venture into historical fiction. The review of Rosa in Harper's Monthly placed the book in the company of the works of Malraux, Raymond Chandler and Robert Musil. I think that readers of Rosa will agree that such comparisons are apt.
Fantastic Read.......2005-07-04
One of the best novels I've read in a long time. Great story, great characters, great writing. I felt as if I were literally transformed back to 1919 Berlin. The entire plot was so compelling, fast-paced, original. The author obviously did his homework -- I believed all of his possible historical scenarios could have actually taken place as opposed to that Da Vinci garbage which was just ridiculous and kept taking me out of the story. You feel Rabb's expertise on every page. I hope he does a sequel -- I'd love to watch Hoffner crack another fascinating mystery.
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A controversial Marxist, Luxemburg here opposes the Bolsheviks' quest for power
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Important Work on Democracy, Socialism and Lenin.......2005-11-27
An excellent book from a German Socialist and contemporary of Lenin and Trotsky. And in this she reflects some criticism against Lenin in comparison to Marxism and the question of censorship, the non-democratic take over of the Putsch and, the ideas of centralism verses opportunism and other activities.
"Lenin has dispersed by force of arms a democratically elected Constituent Assembly, proclaiming instead a "Government of the Workers' and Soldiers Councils," in actual fact, a government of his party." p. 17 Rosa tried to oppose their breaking of democratic faith. She rejected the idea of dictatorship of the Proletariat endorsing a more democratic and extension of freedom to the widest possible number of people. No party had a monopoly of wisdom.
"The true dialectic of revolutions, stands the wisdom of parliamentary roles on its head; not through a majority to revolutionary tactics, but through revolutionary tactics to a majority - that is the way the road runs." p. 39 and speaks of the October revolution as the salvation of the the honor the international revolution.. (p 40).
In this she comments on the land policies of transference from the bourgeois to the peasants, and the nationalities question, "the famous right to self determination of nations is nothing but hollow, petty-bourgeois phraseology and humbug." p. 49 "It is not really people who engaged in these reactionary policies but on the bourgeois and petty bourgeois classes who perverted the national right of self determination into an instrument of their country revolutionary classes. p. 50 but in a class society, each class strives to determine itself in a different fashion with so many variations, which makes it impossible to decide by a popular vote. And to use this instead of the international spirit, this created counter revolutions with bourgeois take overs.
The peasants lack of understanding brought them to vote for Kerensky and Avksentiev, a new constituent assembly was formed and Rosa questions the mechanism of democratic institutions. which contains rigid and schematic conceptions contradicted by historical experience in that here should be more democratic activity after the elections as the votes themselves do not represent the highest voice of majority to sit quiet in between, as the "living fluid of the popular mood continuously flows around the representative bodies, penetrates them and guides them. " p. 60 This should not be renounced in favor of rigid schemes of party emblems and tickets in the very midst of revolution. "The remedy which Trotsky and Lenin have found,the elimination of democracy as such, is worse than the disease it is supposed to cure; for it stops up the very living source from which along can come the correction of all the innate shortcomings of social institutions. that source is the active, untrammeled, energetic political life of the broadest masses of the people." p. 62
And in suffrage, "the dictatorship of Lenin and Trotsky represent the right to vote is granted only to those who live by their own labor and is denied to every else. . . this basis of a general obligation to labor, is a quiet incomprehensible measure." p. 64 "In reality, broad and growing sections of the petty bourgeoisie and proletariat, for whom the economic mechanism provides no means of exercising the obligation to work, are rendered politically without any rights, " p. 65 "The most important democratic guarantees of a healthy public life and of the political activity of the laboring masses; freedom of the press, the rights of association and assembly have been outlawed for all opponents of the Soviet regime. These attacks on democratic rights, the arguments of Trotsky cited above, on the cumbersome nature of democratic electoral bodies, are far from satisfactory. It is a well known and indisputable fact that without a free and untrammeled press, without the unlimited right of association and assemblage, the rule of the broad mass of the people is entirely unthinkable." p. 67
"Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of "justice" but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when "freedom" becomes a special privilege." p. 69
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- A revolutionary woman
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Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Rosa Luxemburg
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From her political awakening as a high school student in tsarist-occupied Poland until her murder in 1919 during the German revolution, Rosa Luxemburg acted and wrote as a proletarian revolutionist. Rosa Luxemburg Speaks takes us inside the political battles between revolution and class collaboration that still shape the modern workers movement.
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A revolutionary woman.......2002-03-18
Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary born in a Poland, which had been divided up amongst Germany, Austria, and Russia. This historical accident enabled her to be a participant in the working class movement in Poland, Russia, and Germany. She was a member of Germany's massive Social Democratic Party for the bulk of her life. This collection includes writings on subjects ranging from the German socialist leadership's betrayal of its working class following, capitalism and war, why workers can and should understand economics, and the new road to social justice opened by the Russian revolution.
It is no wonder that the German ruling class, anxious to hold the line against the rising tide of workers and farmers revolution, murdered this fighter in 1919.
Wish I'd heard her speak in person.......2001-09-01
This collection is worth it for the article "What is economics" alone. You'll never feel the need to plough through another tedious economics tome again. She applies her razor-sharp wit to ripping apart conventional economists' dronings. Explaining how early 19th century economists really tried to elucidate the workings of the system, she lays out how, once they'd realized that they were exposing a class system of exploitation that had no future, the whole lot just dissolved into obscurantist ramblings in order to befuddle the rest of us. Her exposé certainly makes Greenspan and his ilk look like either benighted fools or not-very-sophisticated snake oil peddlers. I loved it. No wonder I flunked Economics 101 - it didn't seem to make any sense because it doesn't. You'll never feel like a fool reading the Business section again.
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Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earlier she had published what was undoubtedly her finest achievement, The Accumulation of Capital - a book which remains one of the masterpieces of socialist literature. Taking Marx as her starting point, she offers an independent and fiercely critical explanation of the economic and political consequences of capitalism in the context of the turbulent times in which she lived, reinterpreting events in the United States, Europe, China, Russia and the British Empire. Many today believe there is no alternative to global capitalism. This book is a timely and forceful statement of an opposing view.
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This 1899 polemic by the famous "Red Rosa" Luxemburg explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contradictions. An effective refutation of revisionist interpretations of Marxist doctrine, it defines the position of scientific socialism on the issues of social reforms, the state, democracy, and the character of the proletarian revolution.
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Timeless..........2007-01-09
One of the most lucid analysis of the European political climate during the early 1900's to date. This book is not merely theoretical expositioning, praxis is concommitant and efficacious. Luxemburg's insight regarding the Capitalist machinations is prescient as well. Afterwards, one cannot help but conclude that our very survival is contingent on the destruction and the complete reorganization of the means of production - she is one of the few intellectuals that insists on this, most are content with the redistribution of the wealth, which is futile as the former resulted in a need for the latter. A solid contribution to Western Political thought.
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