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Gesellschaftsanalyse Und Linke Praxis GESELLSCHAFTSANALYSE UND LINKE PRAXIS I SHALL BE LUTZ BRANGSCH | MICHAEL BRIE | MARIO CANDEIAS | DRUCILLA CORNELL | ALEX DEMIROVIĆ | GAL HERTZ | MIRIAM PIESCHKE | TOVE SOILAND | INGAR SOLTY | UWE SONNENBERG | JÖRN SCHÜTRUMPF CONTENTS STOP OR WE WILL SHOOT! WHY THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION OF 1918/19 HAD TO END IN POLITICAL REVOLUTION AND ULTIMATELY LOST IT AS WELL by Ingar Solty, Uwe Sonnenberg, Jörn Schütrumpf ...............................................................2 A NEW CIVILIZATION by Alex Demirović ............................................................................................................................10 ROSA LUXEMBURG AS A SOCIALIST FEMINIST by Drucilla Cornell ...........................................................................................................................18 ‘NO SENTIMENTALITY PLEASE’ AN ISRAELI PERSPECTIVE ON ROSA LUXEMBURG by Gal Hertz .......................................................................................................................................26 LETTER TO SOPHIE LIEBKNECHT by Rosa Luxemburg ........................................................................................................................32 INNER COLONIES THE CARE SECTOR AS A PLACE OF ‘NEW LANDNAHME’ by Tove Soiland .................................................................................................................. 38 ORDER REIGNS IN BERLIN by Rosa Luxemburg........................................................................................................... 44 REVOLUTIONARY REALPOLITIK by Michael Brie | Mario Candeias .................................................................................... 52 ROWING AGAINST THE CURRENT TEACHING AND LEARNING WITH ROSA LUXEMBURG by Miriam Pieschke ........................................................................................................... 60 ‘NO COWARDICE BEFORE THE FRIEND!’ HOW DO WE CRITIQUE REVOLUTIONS? by Lutz Brangsch ............................................................................................................... 66 AUTHORS .................................................................................................................................. 72 With the exception of the articles by Rosa Luxemburg and Drucilla Cornell, this brochure, a compilation of texts from the 3/2018 ICH WERDE SEIN issue of the LuXemburg Magazine, has been translated from German by Tim Jack, Phillipa Hare and Sally MacPhail for lingua•trans•fair. IMPRINT LuXemburg. Gesellschaftsanalyse und linke Praxis, 2019, ISSN 1869-0424 Publisher: Board of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Managing Editor: Barbara Fried [email protected] Tel: +49 (0)30 443 10-404 Editorial Board: Harry Adler, Lutz Brangsch, Michael Brie, Mario Candeias, Judith Dellheim, Alex DemiroviĆ, Barbara Fried, Corinna Genschel, Christiane Markard, Ferdinand Muggenthaler, Miriam Pieschke, Katharina Pühl, Rainer Rilling, Thomas Sablowski, Hannah Schu- rian, Jörn Schütrumpf, Ingar Solty, Uwe Sonnenberg, Moritz Warnke and Florian Wilde Contact: [email protected] Editorial Office:Harry Adler [email protected] Franz-Mehring-Platz 1, 10243 Berlin Telefon: +49 (0)30 443 10-157 Fax: +49 (0)30 443 10-184 www.zeitschrift-luxemburg.de Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/zeitschriftluxemburg Copyleft: All content, unless otherwise stated, is subject to the terms of the Creative Commons license Graphic Design & Layout: Matthies & Schnegg – The reproductions of the collages and paintings Ausstellungs- und Kommunikationsdesign in this issue are part of the art project ‘A New Dress www.matthies-schnegg.com for Rosa’. It was created by students of the Athens School of Fine Arts in cooperation with the office Print: Hinkelstein-Druck, Berlin, Germany of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Greece Title picture: on the occasion of the 100 th anniversary of Rosa Roland Matticzk, Agentur Sehstern Luxemburg’s death. EDITORIAL Rosa Luxemburg is one of the iconic faces who think differently’ have made it into of the socialist movement. She is also the political mainstream, and have been one of the few women, possibly the only expropriated and re-interpreted as anti- women, whose key role in the movement socialist slogans. With this anniversary is unquestioned. She continues to impress issue, we hope to revive Luxemburg’s us to this day as a brilliant author and thinking and political action. What can she clear-sighted theoretician; she was an offer in the face of today’s challenges? In inspirational speaker, artistic chronicler the struggle against the right-wing, the and passionate comrade. Rosa Luxemburg deep crisis of the political and the great represents a stance that brings together weakness of the Left? resolute dedication to political struggle and How did Luxemburg conceive of ‘tender humanity’. the relationship between party and Luxemburg is not only the eponym movement? What did she make of of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, but internationalism? Was she a feminist – also the inspiration for this journal. Her or how can we, as left-wing feminists, unique way of combining theory and refer to her? Many today continue to practice, analysis and transformation, wear themselves out haggling over small strategy and active intervention in her political differences, as well as in large life is what the LuXemburg Magazine and significant struggles. What stance aspires to, as the mouthpiece of a left- did Luxemburg take when confronted wing project for society. by such challenges? How did she 100 years after her murder, almost deal with the paradox of reform and everybody today knows who Luxemburg revolution? And what can we learn from was, and many are familiar with her her on the decisive question of political dictums. However, even among the Left, organisation? few people actually study her writings We follow her firm conviction that our more than superficially, and hardly any society can and must change – and courses focus on her works, which are her optimism that a future of radical rarely discussed in detail. Some of her emancipation is possible, even in the face quotes, such as ‘the freedom of those of political defeats: I was, I am, I SHALL BE! PREFACE 1 STOP OR WE WILL SHOOT! WHY THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION OF 1918/19 HAD TO END IN POLITICAL REVOLUTION AND ULTIMATELY LOST IT AS WELL INGAR SOLTY, UWE SONNENBERG, JÖRN SCHÜTRUMPF One of the most vivid images of the events movement demands such as universal surrounding the 1918/19 revolution in and women’s suffrage and the eight-hour Germany is that of soldiers holding up day. Within hours an entire order seemed a sign with the unambiguous message: to tumble. Economic power and property ‘Stop or we will shoot!’ STOP! they call relations remained intact, yet within while cordoning off public spaces. This is a matter of a few hours, by adopting a the reality in Germany after January 1919. new form of government; Germany had become a republic. ‘BROTHERS! DON’T SHOOT!’ For this November 1918, the Just two months before nobody could pictorial memory of the revolution still have seen this coming. People had danced reminds us of the urgent plea: ‘Brothers! celebrating the end of the devastating war. Don’t shoot!’. In stark contrast to the On 9 November 1918, Germany’s emperor atrocities and violence of the First World had abdicated and, fearing prosecution, War, the revolution by and large began fled to the Netherlands. The young peacefully with the Kiel sailors’ mutiny republic, depleted of resources by the war, on 3 November 1918, and the (double) would later send him a substantial part declaration of the republic by Philipp of his private fortune, a unique feature in Scheidemann and Karl Liebknecht on the history of Europe’s way of dealing with 9 November. Yet on 6 December 1918, toppled monarchs. The rapidly established the military commander of Berlin, Otto Council of People’s Representatives Wels (SPD), positioned machine guns on implemented long-standing worker Berlin’s Chausseestraße street, and let 2 LUXEMBURG 2019 | I SHALL BE guard fusiliers open fire on an authorised a peaceful revolution to the outbreak demonstration. Simultaneously, counter of massive violence over the following revolutionary units in the city centre months? And what – beyond accusing attempted to arrest the Executive Council individuals of having committed treason – of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils – since can help us understand why the governing 10 November the revolution’s highest Majority Social Democrats, after they organ – and proclaim the councillor of had striven to change capitalism through the people’s representative Friedrich revolution before the war, now in coalition Ebert (SPD) as ‘President’ by granting with anti-democratic forces opposed the him dictatorial powers. When both of revolution in an authoritarian way? them failed, the marauders moved on to After 1910 at the latest a revolution the office of Rote Fahne, the paper of the was no longer on the SPD’s agenda. Spartacus League, although at the time Instead, the SPD in coalition with an independent organisation, but still the other more or less liberal parties organised within the USPD (Independent represented in the Reichstag focused on Social Democratic Party of Germany) the role of the monarchy in parliament. which had split from the SPD due to its In early October 1918, these efforts had at opposition to the war. This would not least succeeded in toppling Ludendorff’s be the last visit. The tensions between military dictatorship. Initially,
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