[Marxism] Rosa Luxemburg and the Legacy of Classical German Philosophy

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available at: http://www.critiquejournal.net/cr41.html

for an abstract see below:

Thispaper aims to explore the philosophical foundation of Rosa 
Luxemburg's work. This
aspect of Luxemburg's work is hardly researched least of all worked 
out. This is probably due to the
fact that there are only few passages in the published work of 
Luxemburg's, where she discusses
explicitly philosophical questions. Indeed, there are only few explicit 
passages in Luxemburg's work,
where she defines her philosophical position in relation to classical 
German philosophy, but these
passages are of such a fundamental importance that they deserve to be 
examined.
Towards the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th 
century in and among Social
Democrat Party of Germany (SPD) many intellectuals, so-called 
neo-Kantians, called for a return to
Kantian philosophy. This return to Kantian philosophy in combination 
with Marxian critique of political
economy they believed would enable social democrats to develop a proper 
philosophy of socialism. In
these explicit passages Luxemburg criticised neo-Kantians and defended 
Hegelian philosophy. Unlike
neo-Kantians Luxemburg believed that Marxian philosophy can only be 
developed further if Hegelian
dialectical philosophy is saved in Marxism.
But apart from these passages where Luxemburg defines explicitly her 
relationship to classical German
philosophy her whole work is penetrated by a philosophical conviction. 
She uses implicitly in her
critique of Bernstein, Kautsky and Sombart, for example, many 
dialectical concepts which still need to
be brought to the fore. This concerns above all her approach to the 
relationship of content and form,
essence and appearance, concrete and abstract, quantity and quality, is 
and ought, and to the concept of
critique. By utilising these concepts Luxemburg develops a dialectical 
philosophy of science. She
formulates this philosophy of science particularly in the context of 
social and political sciences.
The aim of this paper is to work out these aspects of Luxemburg's work 
and consider it in
relation to some contemporary philosophies of sciences to indicate its 
relevance for the 21st century.


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