{"id":3489,"date":"2011-04-26T17:23:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:19:55","slug":"reading-rosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/culture-media\/books\/reading-rosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Rosa: An interview with Peter Hudis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group rp-box rp-full-width has-pale-1-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Red Pepper<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><strong>How do you feel that Rosa Luxemburg\u2019s ideas speak to the political situation we face today? How would a new generation of radical activists benefit from encountering her ideas?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group rp-full-width has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Hudis<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The spontaneous mass revolts in north Africa and the Middle East, especially in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, underline the importance of Luxemburg\u2019s contribution. She understood better than any Marxist of her time (and better than most after it) that revolution is never \u2018made\u2019 by some enlightened party or individuals, but rather emerges spontaneously from the response of masses of people to social conditions. She was always looking for the unexpected to come from the masses, and her work helps train our eyes in precisely that direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Equally important is her understanding of what happens after the revolution. She held that there is no socialism without democracy, just as there is no democracy without socialism. She gave grief to anyone, whether friend or foe, who fell short of envisioning social change as a liberation and freeing of humanity\u2019s innate and acquired talents and abilities. In this sense she was part of an idealist strain within Marxism that has been neglected for far too long. Let\u2019s not forget that in 1844 Marx defined his philosophy as humanism that consists of the unity of idealism and materialism. We need that unity now more than ever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group rp-box rp-full-width has-pale-1-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Red Pepper<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><strong>What light do you feel that the volume of her correspondence adds to our picture of Luxemburg? What do her letters to women\u2019s rights activist Clara Zetkin have to show about her views on gender politics, especially in relation to her own experiences?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group rp-full-width has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Hudis<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>For many years many assumed that Luxemburg was not a feminist and was relatively indifferent to women\u2019s emancipation. This is not the case, however. Luxemburg turned down repeated requests from the leaders of the German Social Democratic Party to play a more direct role in the party\u2019s women\u2019s section and in Gleichheit, but that was because she viewed it as an effort on their part to steer her away from direct involvement in the political and theoretical debates in German socialism that they wished to reserve for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She encountered a great deal of sexism from leaders of the SPD (including from August Bebel, author of <em>Women Under Socialism<\/em>, who referred to her in a letter to Kautsky as a \u2018poisonous bitch\u2019) and she was fully aware of the sexism that so often thwarted her efforts to be heard. She felt, however, that the most effective way to combat such barriers was to reveal the overall political and theoretical weakness of her opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We now know that she wrote a lot about women\u2019s emancipation; in a letter to Zetkin she writes how proud she is to call herself a feminist. It was to bring this dimension to attention that Kevin Anderson and myself included a collection of her writings on women in <em>The Rosa Luxemburg Reader. <\/em>Now <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/2181-the-letters-of-rosa-luxemburg?srsltid=AfmBOooeb91W-D598QhP8z_Hix0mwowALAOUgpiu4hS8ubXBSXksCBcz\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/2181-the-letters-of-rosa-luxemburg?srsltid=AfmBOooeb91W-D598QhP8z_Hix0mwowALAOUgpiu4hS8ubXBSXksCBcz\">The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg<\/a><\/em> further shows that one of her main concerns upon being freed from prison in November 1918 was to encourage the establishment of a women\u2019s section of what became, by late December, the German Communist Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was quite remarkable given how many other issues she had to deal with in the two brief months of revolutionary upheaval between her release from prison and her death. It is as if Luxemburg, now freed from those who had thwarted her in so many ways within the SPD, felt released to focus more intently on women\u2019s issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group rp-box rp-full-width has-pale-1-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Red Pepper<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><strong>Many activists first encounter the figure of Luxemburg through the filter of involvement with organisations in the Leninist tradition. But what were the main points of disagreement between Luxemburg and Lenin, and how does their difference in methods and perspectives look from our vantage point?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group rp-full-width has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Hudis<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>In many respects Lenin and Luxemburg were poles apart on the question of organisation, yet in other respects they shared common assumptions about it. Both accepted the need for a \u2018vanguard party\u2019, even though it is a notion that is alien to Marx\u2019s work and which entered the German (and later Russian) socialist movement largely through the influence of Marx\u2019s adversary, Ferdinand Lassalle (who Marx called \u2018a future workers\u2019 dictator\u2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Second International, in which both Luxemburg and Lenin were raised, did not develop on the basis of organisational concepts found in Marx; it was Lassalle or Kautsky who set the tone. It would therefore be a misreading of history to presume that Luxemburg and Lenin did not have some premises in common when it came to organisation. However, Luxemburg was never as rigid or dogmatic as Lenin on the need for centralised leadership by (as she put it) \u2018some all-knowing central committee\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She often clashed with Lenin for (as she put it in a manuscript of 1911 entitled Credo) \u2018swaddling the party, in a purely mechanistic fashion, with an intellectual dictator from the central party executive\u2019. Luxemburg had much greater confidence in what masses of people can unexpectedly create on their own and did not share Lenin\u2019s fixation on centralised control over the masses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my view, the biggest difference between them was over what happens&nbsp;after the revolution. Luxemburg did not view democracy as a mere instrument to be cast aside upon the seizure of power. On the contrary, she held that unless the seizure of power immediately leads to the most extensive democratisation possible, it will prove impossible to create a new society. Parties do not create socialism; freely associated workers and citizens do instead. She therefore rightly condemned Lenin\u2019s Red Terror, the creation of the Cheka, and the formation of a party dictatorship. Herein lies her most important contribution for those seeking to work out a viable conception of \u2018what happens after the revolution\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group rp-box rp-full-width has-pale-1-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Red Pepper<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><strong>In what areas will the publication of the <em>Complete Works<\/em> make available significant new material to an English audience, and with what implication for our estimation of her achievements or limitations?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group rp-full-width has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Hudis<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>About 80 per cent of Luxemburg\u2019s writings have never appeared in English. Even one of her most important theoretical works, The Introduction to Political Economy, has never appeared in full in English. The latter, along with six manuscripts on political economy, pre-capitalist societies, and Marx\u2019s Capital that have been discovered in the past several decades, will appear in the first volume of the <em>Complete Works: Economic Writings, 1898-1907<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These writings will show the extent of her understanding of Marxist theory and the depth of her compassion for those suffering from the ravages of imperialism and capitalist intrusion in the developing world. Many have assumed that her opposition to national self-determination meant that she was indifferent to those living outside of Europe, but the <em>Complete Works<\/em> will present a very different picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will also enable us to evaluate the extent to which she succeeded or failed to promote her much-heralded principles of free discussion and avoidance of centralised organisational structures when it came to her work within the Polish movement. Very few of her writings on the latter (which amount to several thousand pages) have ever appeared in English, and they will help show the difficulties even she encountered in working out a totally different relation of spontaneity, consciousness and organisation from what characterised post-Marx Marxism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Hudis, editor of the newly published Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, speaks to Red Pepper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":47572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,89,1977,2529],"tags":[3188],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-feminism","category-history","category-socialism","tag-peter-hudis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reading Rosa: An interview with Peter Hudis - 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