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Rosa Luxemburg on the Dialectics of Proletarian Internationalism and Social Patriotism

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ID10487571
AuthorsJie‐hyun Lim (Hanyang University, corresponding author), Jie-Hyun Lim (Department of History Hanyang University Seoul, 133-791 Republic of Korea)
Year1995
Volume59
Issue4
Pages498-530
Publication date1995-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0036-8237 • E-ISSN: 1943-2801
PublisherGuilford Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/003682379505900403
OpenAlexW4413736276
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited5

Red Rosa was not a national nihilist, despite common misperceptions. She was well aware of the intrinsic value of the national language and culture. Her concept of territorial autonomy stood on a broader scale than even the Austro-Marxists' concept of cultural autonomy. In the final instance, however, she failed to advance to a fully dialectical recognition of revolutionary internationalism and social patriotism because of her deeply rooted opposition to the positions of the Polish Socialist Party in practice and her proletarian fundamentalism in theory. Luxemburg did not recognize ultimately what the right of national self-determination meant to the mass of oppressed nationalities. That is why Luxemburgism has a poor reputation among Marxists of peripheral countries still struggling with the national question. Luxemburg's universalist stance of Enlightened Marxism, however, implies a valuable criticism of "Third World" or populist socialism. The historical evaluation of Luxemburg should be freed not only from the international nihilist view of some rightist social patriots, but also from the Eurocentric view of classical and some contemporary Western Marxists

Dialectic · Internationalism (politics · Patriotism · Political science · Politics · Proletariat · Theology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Religious studies

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Unique citing works3
Citations per year0,33
Citation span2017 - 2026 (10)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3

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