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- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book Published: 1983
- Germany's lost Bolshevik: Paul Levi revisited
A review of David Fernbach (ed), In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings by Paul Levi Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Paul Levis name is almost unknown today outside a small community of specialised historians. But in the years 1919 and 1920 he was well known in Germany and abroad as the chair of the young Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He would become the most controversial figure in the German Communist movement. He was mainly responsible for building the KPD from a relatively small organisation in early 1918 into a truly mass party.
- Luxemburg, Müller and the Berlin workers' and soldiers' councils
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Rose reviews and discusses two important books about the German Revolution, "Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement", and "The German Left and the Weimar Republic: A Selection of Documents".
- A Marxist History of the World part 75: The German Revolution
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 At the end of the First World War, the epicentre of revolution moved from Petrograd to Berlin. Why did the German communists fail where the Bolsheviks had succeded?
- Our Path: Against Putschism
Resource Type: Article Published: 1921 If a Communist Party is to be built up again in Germany, then the dead of central Germany, Hamburg, the Rhineland, Baden, Silesia and Berlin, not to mention the many thousands of prisoners who have fallen victim to this Bakuninist lunacy, all demand in the face of the events of the last week: Never again!
- Paul Levi: A Luxemburgist Alternative?
A review of In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Among the adversaries of capitalism, some have argued that a revolution could have been achieved differently and better in the spirit of Rosa Luxemburg, who wrote a critique of the Bolsheviks undemocratic policies as early as 1918. Paul Levi, Luxemburgs lawyer, briefly her lover, her follower, and from 1919 to 1921 her successor at the head of German Communism, was the first to defend a Luxemburgist alternative to Bolshevism.
- The Police and the 1918-19 German Revolution
A Correction to Our Militant Labour Pamphlet Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 After the SPD took the helm of the government, Emil Eichhorn, a member of the left wing of the USPD, became the Berlin chief of police, acting on the false view that this arm of the bourgeois state could be transformed into a revolutionary instrument. On 4 January 1919, the Prussian Ministry of the Interior dismissed Eichhorn in a deliberate provocation.
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