Rosa Luxemburg's "Reform or Revolution" 

This man has read every book lmao wtf

My friend, thank you. Good break down. One note. On revolution being a succession of baby steps. In this text Rosa calls the revolution a hammer blow. This indicates that it will be rather ubrupt. Part of why people cling to the ideal reformist position is because they fear that ubrupt change, that "hammerblow of revolution". Nothing to lose our chains.

One of my favorite texts for introducing Marxism to well meaning progressive liberals

Thank you so much for this video; i didnt know much about Rosa Luxemburg; and now i believe is one of my favorite thinkers and rebels ever!

I just wrote a research paper where I covered this book and it's Influence on popular Marxist conception, a lovely piece for sure.

Waiting for Lenin.

Currently reading this book. This was a great overview. Thanks!

In the current context of deeply entrenched neoliberalism, we would be lucky if we could move toward social democracy---it improved millions of lives under FDR and throughout the so-called New Deal era (roughly 1933-1960s), and it has also had success in many Northern European nations. Universal health care, strong union representation, higher wages, a progressive tax code, a robust social safety net, and an expansion of the middle class, etc.--all of these are achievable, and have even been realized in some nations. Revolution, or Marxian socialism, are simply not achievable for the foreseeable future. Note: I'm primarily talking about the US--conditions for Marxian socialism may be less implausible in some smaller, less conservative nations (of course the US would do all it could to prevent this, by means they've used repeatedly in the past to undermine aspiring, incipient socialist nations).

I bought The Rosa Luxembourg Reader for this and always wondered if it was different than Social Reform or Revolution

Fantastic video to help digest the book and to help explain its key points. Thank you (from a post-grad history student).

So excellent and helpful. Thank you so much!

Thank you for that summary!!

Dont forget to try state and revolution by lenin guys

ı love this boy...ı will watch all of his video...

such a good explanation!

What are your thoughts on the RU-vid channel Unlearn Economics. Their videos tend to advocate for market socialism, similar to what Bernstein was on about

helpful thank you. starting a social work program and it is dubious. any recommendations?

Capitalism is not inevitable and any so called "Marxists" should be highly critical and skeptical of this preposition, along with the whole hierarchy of civilizations/cultures. In its essence it is race based "science" to think and echo this paradigm.

When you say anarchistic do you mean anomistic? Because marx said communism grows incresingly anarchistic as the proletariat state withers away when its not needed. I suspect you do not understand what the word means. Sadly Marx was wrong as he did not realise that capitalism can expand forever with finite resources and time. It just needs state recuperation to ensure social reproduction. Social unrest can be expensive. Marx neglected the role of oligopolies, capitalists against capitism - because of his 1 big idea. The crisis of capitalism is like the tragedy of the commons. It assumes unchanging isolation without adaptation. Both are reified ideologies. If Luxemburg is really saying that then she is saying ALL surplus value is required to sustain reproduction. The US has sustained production whilst increasing profits and driving down living standards. Destroying the US does not destroy capitalism it just pushes it towards slavery. Slavery was very productive for those defined as human, just not very competitive or innovative. Demand for consumption will never disapear - on Mars. Her dialectics has stalled in dualism. If you are not with us you are against us. Because she is not engaging in straw man dialectics