Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg (Creolizing the Canon)

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Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg
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Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
What Does It Mean to Creolize Rosa?
	“Like a Clap of Thunder”
	Creolizing Rosa
	What Does It Mean to Fight?
	Works Cited
Debating Nationalism
Chapter 1
A Troubled Legacy
	Accessing Luxemburg\'s Full Body of Thought
	Marx and Luxemburg on Continuous Primitive Accumulation
	The Logical Determination of Luxemburg’s Theory of Accumulation
	Class Consciousness, Democracy, and the Transition to Socialism
	Revolutionizing the Personal as Well as the Political
	Works Cited
Chapter 2
The Contemporary Transnational Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s Socialist Critique of National Self-Determination
	On National Self-Determination: Disagreeing with Lenin
	The Danger of Abstract Moralism in Nationalist Ideology
	Rosa Luxemburg’s Critique of Bourgeois Nationalism Read with Fanon
	The Importance of Lewis Gordon’s Distinction between Moralism and Political Responsibility
	Works Cited
Chapter 3
Against a Single History, for a Revaluation of Power
	Karl Marx: The Critique of Political Economy and the Idea of a Single History
	Luxemburg with and beyond Marx: Imperialism, Colonialism, Militarism, and Capitalism
	Moving with and beyond Luxemburg: Raya Dunayevskaya and C.L.R. James
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
Revolutionary Subjects
	Chapter 4
	Walter Rodney’s Russian Revolution and the Curious Case of Rosa Luxemburg
		Luxemburg and the Bolsheviks
		The Curious History of a Pamphlet
		Walter Rodney in the Footsteps of Red Rosa
		Taking Power Is No Tea Party
		Works Cited
	Chapter 5
	A Political Economy of the Damned
		Rosa on Enslavement
		Quibbling with Rosa
		Creolizing Rosa
		Rosa’s Self-Creolizing Work
		In Conclusion
		Works Cited
	Chapter 6
	One Hundred Years of Rosa Luxemburg’s Marxism
		Rosa Luxemburg’s Radical Conception of Imperialism
		Rosa Luxemburg and Democracy in Contemporary South Africa
		Works Cited
	Chapter 7
	Rosa Luxemburg, Nature, and Imprisonment
		Historical Confluence
		Deprivations
		Resilience
		Nature
		Works Cited
The Mass Strike, Past and Present
Chapter 8
“The Living Pulsebeat of the Revolution”
	The Mass Strike as Concept and Practice
	The Black Proletariat and the General Strike
	Proletarian Subjectivity and Collective Agency
	Articulating Political and Economic Struggles
	Social Revolution and the Democratic Republic
	Conclusion: Luxemburg and Du Bois in the Encounter
	Works Cited
Chapter 9
Luxemburg on Tahrir Square
	The History of the Struggles
	The Political Geography and Organization of the Struggles
	The Politics of the Economy and the Economy of Politics
	Differentiation of Revolutionary Actors
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
Chapter 10
Migrant Caravans and Luxemburg’s Spontaneous Mass Strike
	The Mass Strike Cannot Be Understood in Historical Isolation
	The Economic and Political Are One in the Mass Strike
	In Our Revolutionary Moment: Political Education
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
Reconsidering Primitive Accumulation
Chapter 11
Disaggregating Primitive Accumulation
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	Works Cited
Chapter 12
“No Eyes, No Interest, No Frame of Reference”
	The Dissolution of Primitive Communism
	“Hybrid Forms”
	People as the Aim of Production
	In Conclusion
	Works Cited
Chapter 13
Luxemburg’s Contemporary Resonances in South Africa
	Capitalist versus Non-capitalist Relations, in Structural Socio-Political-Economic Terms
	Capitalist versus Non-capitalist Relations in Structural Environmental-Economic Terms
	Non/Anti-capitalist versus Capitalist Relations
	Commoning Luxemburg, Beyond the Contradictions
	Post-script (June 2020)
	Works Cited
Chapter 14
Primitive Accumulation and the Government of the State in Post-Apartheid South Africa
	The Concept of Primitive Accumulation
	Primitive Accumulation in the Present
	Primitive Accumulation and Postcolonial Government
	The Two Economies Thesis and Governmental Reason in South Africa
	Government and the Poor
	Neoliberal Governmentality, Primitive Accumulation, and the Counter Movement
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
Chapter 15
Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness
	Accumulation and Race in Luxemburg’s Theorizing of Capitalist Imperialism
	The Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness and Medieval Race-Making
	Neoliberal Imperialism and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness
	Conclusion: Interrupting the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness
	Works Cited
Chapter 16
Creolizing The Accumulation of Capital through Social Reproduction Theory
	Luxemburg’s Critique of Bourgeois Feminism
	Social Reproduction Theory and Luxemburg’s Theory of Accumulation
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
Unfinished Conversations among Revolutionary Women
Chapter 17
“Staying Human”
	Johnson, Forest, and the Revolts of 1943
	“The Black Dimension”
	Dunayevskaya’s Critique of Luxemburg in 1946
	Raya and Rosa: New Appreciations of Luxemburg
	The Problem of Translation and the Bad Break between the Generations
	By Way of a Conclusion: Staying Human
	Works Cited
Chapter 18
Claudia Jones, Political Economy, and the Creolizing of Rosa Luxemburg
	The Caribbean Creolizing Tradition
	Marx and the Caribbean Creolizing Tradition
	Sylvia Wynter, Labor Commodification, and the Creolizing of Marx
	Rosa Luxemburg, Capital Accumulation, and the Critique of Marx
	Rosa Luxemburg: Critical or Creole Thinker?
	Claudia Jones Black Political Economy and the Creolizing of Marxism-Leninism
	Jones’s Black Socialist Feminism
	Claudia Jones as a Creolizing Thinker
	Claudia Jones and the Creolizing of Rosa Luxemburg
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
Chapter 19
To Be Young, Gifted and Woman
	Woman’s Work: A Life of the Mind and Action
	Luxemburg’s Revolutionary Thought and Praxis
	Hansberry’s Black Radical Politics and Art
	“A Fierce Hatred of Injustice”: Humanism as Praxis
	Luxemburg on the Global South
	Conclusion
	Coda: Lorraine and Rosa in Communion
	Works Cited
Index
Contributors