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Paul Mason

2 Mar, 10 tweets, 5 min read

@rosalux_global

R is for Rosa, a project in collaboration with @rosalux_global is three short documentaries about the ideas of the German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg... in Episode 1 she dives into the 1905 revolution, ends up in jail, and writes The Mass Strike...

Episode 2 finds Luxemburg teaching in the SPD party school with a bunch of old reformists ... check out the archive shots to see how happy that made her feel... she writes a major work on economics, and then the war breaks out...

Episode 3 begins with Rosa in jail in Breslau... writing her diatribe against Lenin over democracy... she rushes to Berlin as the war ends, forms the KPD and is murdered by the Freikorps...

@TheopiSkarlatos

Thanks and congratulations to producer @TheopiSkarlatos to @PhineRogers who plays Rosa, to the genius motion graphics designer, to @DanaNaomyMills + to the cameracrews, present and historic - plus RLS/German Foreign Office for funding the films...

@derfreitag

When I became a political activist in the 1970s, everyone was "breaking from Luxemburgism" in the same vein as dissing Gramsci and obsessing about Lenin... watch out for my upcoming @derfreitag article on why Luxemburg has to be rediscovered...

@DanaNaomyMills

The von Trotta biopic is well worth watching, and humanised RL brilliantly, but the political biopic has yet to be written. If you want to start somewhere start with @DanaNaomyMills short biog here reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?IS…

@cartoonkate

... also versobooks.com/books/2036-red… by @cartoonkate is a highly detailed account of both Rosa's life and politics, in which she is allowed to have more fun than in any other book about her...

@rosalux_global

... on Thursday a two-day online festival begins hosted in Berlin by @rosalux_global - I'll be discussing the Accumulation of Capital in the context of the post capitalist transition.... rosalux.de/en/event/es_de…

... the Rosa 150th anniversary comes 13 days before the Paris Commune 150th anniversary - her life spanned the era of cavalry charges and chemical warfare.. in the films we tried to create "imperialism" as a character....

Here's the full series link for R is for Rosa. Enjoy. Commemorate. Fight! youtube.com/playlist?list=…

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