Abstract
Abstract The question that I want to address here goes beyond the person and activity of Rosa Luxemburg. Through her person and activity, I want to look at a problem that affects our understanding of Marxism, and our own self-perception as theorists who are also revolutionaries: namely, the relation of theory and practice. For Rosa Luxemburg this was no problem even in the darkest hour: “Marxist theory gave to the working class of the whole world a compass by which to fix its tactics from hour to hour in its journey toward the one unchanging goal.” Today, after the (however temporary) set-backs of the working class in the West, after the excesses, stupidities and crimes committed in the name of Marxism, after the so-called successes of revolution where Marxism least expected them—we can no longer be so sanguine as Rosa Luxemburg.
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