Rosa Luxembourg
Reform or Revolution was Rosa Luxembourg’s first major political work, and one of the most enduring contributions to socialist thought. When Rosa Luxembourg arrived in Berlin in 1898, she found the SPD (German Social Democratic Party) engulfed in a crisis of conscience provoked by Eduard Bernstein. Bernstein had spent long years in exile in Switzerland and England as a result of the anti-socialist laws. He attacked the very idea of revolutionary upheaval, the method, the basis of Marxist philosophy and the labor theory of value. He concluded that revolution was not necessary, that socialism could be achieved by gradual reform of the capitalist system, through mechanisms like consumers’ cooperatives, trade unions and the gradual extension of political democracy. The SPD, he declared should be changed from a party of social revolution into a party of social reforms. Rosa Luxembourg entered the growing battle over revisionism by publishing the articles, which first appeared in the Leipziger Volkszeitung in September 1898 and in April 1899 she published a second article. The two articles together were published in 1900 as Reform or Revolution. This was the most penetrating critique of Bernstein’s
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