In The Steps Of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings Of Paul Levi

David Fernbach studied at London School of Economics. He is a freelance writer, editor and translator. Publications include the three-volume edition of Karl Marx’s Political Writings (Penguin 1973-4, reissued Verso 2010), and The Spiral Path: a gay contribution to human survival (1981). Translations include Marx’s Capital Volumes Two and Three, and works by Georg Lukacs, Rudolf Bahro, Boris Groys, Nicos Poulantzas, Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière.Paul Levi (1886 1930) was a long time friend and sometimes lawyer to Rosa Luxemburg. Levi became one of the leading members of the German Communist Party, and an active participant in the Communist International.

"With this skillfully edited collection of Levi's speeches and writings, Fernbach, long established as a leading student of Marxism, makes a major contribution to understanding the Left in Europe in the years after WW I. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."—Choice"Levi’s writings in English ... allow English-reading socialists to obtain a fuller understanding of the German revolutionary period after the First World War, a period rich in lessons for anti-capitalists today. ... David Fernbach [has] done a service to the left in making them available to the English reader.—Stuart King, in Permanent Revolution, vol. 22

• IntroductionPart One: Leading the KPD Address to the Founding Congress of the KPDLetter to Lenin (1919)The Munich Experience: An Opposing ViewThe Political Situation and the KPD (October 1919)The Lessons of the Hungarian RevolutionThe World-Situation and the German RevolutionThe Beginning of the Crisis in the Communist Party and the InternationalLetter to LoriotPart Two: The March ActionOur Path: Against PutschismWhat Is the Crime? The March Action or Criticising It?Letter to Lenin (1921)The Demands of the Kommunistische ArbeitsgemeinschaftPart Three: The Soviet QuestionLetter to Clara ZetkinIntroduction to Rosa Luxemburg’s pamphlet The Russian Revolution Introduction to Trotsky, The Lessons of OctoberThe Retreat from LeninismAfter Ten YearsApproaching the EndReturnPart Four: The German RepublicThe Murder of ErzbergerThe Needs of the HourWhy We Are Joining the United Social-Democratic PartyThe Assassination of RathenauThe Situation after Rathenau’s DeathThe Reich and the WorkersThe Defenders of the RepublicAfter the OathReferencesIndex