“Intrepid, incorruptible, passionate and gentle. Imagine as you read between the lines of what she wrote, the expression of her eyes. She loved workers and birds. She danced with a limp. Everything about her fascinates and rings true. One of the immortals.”
—John Berger
“One cannot read the writings of Rosa Luxemburg, even at this distance, without an acute yet mournful awareness of what Perry Anderson once termed ‘the history of possibility.'”
—Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic
“Luxemburg’s criticism of Marxism as dogma and her stress on consciousness exerted an influence on the women’s liberation movement which emerged in the late ’60s and early ’70s.”
—Sheila Rowbotham, Guardian
“A radical of luminous dimension.”
—Vivian Gornick
“Rosa goes on being our source of fresh water in thirsty times.”
—Eduardo Galeano
“Anyone hoping to explore the politics of socialism from below, learn more about one of the most enthralling periods of revolutionary history, or restore their faith in the stunningly creative potential of the masses even in dark times should pick up The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume V, and spend some time with the writings of one of the greatest visionaries history has ever known.”
—Sean Larson, Tempest
