Four-part, six-hour lecture from Harvey Goldberg, who has rightly been called ‘The John Coltrane of Lecturers’ for his brilliant explorations and his tireless, sometimes volcanic, delivery, on the life and work of Rosa Luxemburg. Goldberg, a legendary Marxist history professor here teaching at UW Madison in the 1970s, is in his element with an expansive and deeply political telling. Part 1) Rosa Luxemburg and Opportunism in the German Workers Movement, Part 2) Rosa Luxemburg and the Mass Strike, Part 3) Luxemburg and Liebknecht’s Fight Against Militarism and War, Part 4) The Spartacist Rising and the Murder of Rosa Luxemburg.
Rosa Luxemburg / The German Working Class Movement. December 1 & 3, 1975. Two lectures on Rosa Luxemburg’s fight with reformist in the Social Democratic Party and the context of the German workers’ movement.
Rosa Luxemburg and the Mass Strike, February 1976. Professor Goldberg looks at Rosa Luxemburg’s understanding of the Mass Strike, its historical context, and the debates around it.
1914: The Social Democrats Betray & Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and the Revolutionary Underground. 1975. Professor Goldberg delivers a stinging account of the betrayal of internationalism by European Social Democrats in 1914 and the role of Liebknecht and Luxemburg in the revolutionary struggle against the war and debates on imperialism.
The Spartacist Uprising and the Murder of Rosa Luxemburg. March 7, 1976. Harvey Goldberg discusses the aftermath of the World War in Germany, the revolutions and the Spartacist Uprising with the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg by Social Democrats.
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