Rosa Luxemburg Peace Utopias (1911)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~4,210 words · 20 passages
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- APARosa Luxemburg. (n.d.). Rosa Luxemburg Peace Utopias (1911). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/rosa-luxemburg/rosa-luxemburg-peace-utopias-1911
- MLARosa Luxemburg. Rosa Luxemburg Peace Utopias (1911). Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/rosa-luxemburg/rosa-luxemburg-peace-utopias-1911.
- ChicagoRosa Luxemburg. Rosa Luxemburg Peace Utopias (1911). Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/rosa-luxemburg/rosa-luxemburg-peace-utopias-1911.
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What it is about
Peace Utopias (1911): against the idea that a United States of Europe or disarmament would prevent war.
Context and history
Written three years before 1914, it argues that peace is not won by agreements between states while the economy pushing them to war stays as it is. It reads differently knowing what came next. English translation from the Marxists Internet Archive. The original is German — or Polish, depending on the piece; for citation, the original. This is an article or a congress speech, not a book: its size in the catalogue is the size of the actual piece.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
the crisis in the Balkans, accelerated the outbreak of the Turkish Revolution, encouraged Russia to military action in Persia and led to a rapprochement between Turkey and Germany which, in its turn, rendered the Anglo-German antagonisms more acute. The Potsdam agreement resulted in the sharpening of the crisis in China and the Russo-Japanese agreement had the same effect. Therefore, on a mere reckoning with facts, to refuse to realise that these facts give rise to anything rather than a mitigation of the international conflicts, of any sort of disposition toward world peace, is wilfully to close one’s eyes. In view of all this, how is it possible to speak of tendencies toward peace in bourgeois development which are supposed to neutralise and overcome its tendencies toward war? Wherein are they expressed?