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Luxemburg on Revolution

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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The Unconventional View of Russia in the First World War

Luxembourg and Lenin both believed that Russia was potentially a revolutionary society. But they also thought the definition of a revolutionary act in that context was to get out of the war. And this attempt to put off the reckoning would just produce a greater international reckoning as empires themselves come to clash, says Julian Assange.

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