Renowned Marxist scholar Michael Lampoumlwy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary.Vibrant insightful and wideranging Lampoumlwyamprsquos essays illuminate the heroic toughminded idealist and martyr Rosa Luxemburg. Active in the labor and socialist movements of Germany Poland and Russia Luxemburg had international standing as an original and sharpminded theorist during her life and remains one of the most admired and studied revolutionaries in the Marxist tradition.Lampoumlwy follows Luxemburg in blending diverse intellectual disciplinesampmdashphilosophy history political science sociology anthropology and economicsampmdashto make sense of global realities in her time and our own. Luxemburgamprsquos creative intellectual endeavors were shaped by her genuine devotion to the free development of all people and her fierce opposition to all forms of tyranny and authoritarianism. These commitments guided her analyses of exploitation and mass struggle the dynamics of trade unions and of bureaucracy the origins and impacts of economic crisis the nature of war and imperialism and the interconnections of reform and revolution.In accessible and stimulating prose Lampoumlwy explores Luxemburgamprsquos many political and theoretical contributions as well as her links to revolutionaries including Karl Marx Vladimir Lenin Antonio Gramsci Georg Lukampaacutecs Josampeacute Carlos Mariampaacutetegui and Leon Trotsky. Through Lampoumlwyamprsquos expansive engagement with Luxemburgamplsquos political trajectory and influence we are able to see her wrestle with political problems that remain relevant today.