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My introduction to Rosa Luxemburg was familial. Readying for a late soiree, I wore what was then late-teen de rigueur: a sweatshirt, pea jacket, jeans, and boots. My father, a German Social Democrat in his youth—more for the party’s wraparound social and cultural services than its particular ideology—asked me if I was going out to meet Rosa Luxemburg. I didn’t know who that was, but she sounded good.
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Hirsch, M. (2013). Contra Bronner on Luxemburg and Working-Class Revolution. In: Schulman, J. (eds) Rosa Luxemburg. Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137343321_12
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