Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg Audiobook [English] | Audible Socialism

Download MP3 Files: (00:00) Introduction Part One (06:33) Chapter 1: The Opportunist Method (18:07) Chapter 2: The Adaptation of Capitalism (40:29) Chapter 3: The Realisation of Socialism through Social Reforms (57:44) Chapter 4: Capitalism and the State (01:13:00) Chapter 5: The Consequences of Social Reformism and General Nature of Reformism Part Two (01:32:30) Chapter 6: Economic Development and Socialism (01:52:40) Chapter 7: Co-operatives, Unions, Democracy (02:15:37) Chapter 8: Conquest of Political Power (02:38:26) Chapter 9: Collapse (02:48:28) Chapter 10: Opportunism in Theory and Practice - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rosa Luxemburg’s classic pamphlet Reform or Revolution (also known as Social Reform or Revolution) was first published in 1899. Much of the material had appeared in article form over the preceding year in the Leipziger Volkszeitung. The articles took issue with the work of Eduard Bernstein, an important figure within the German and international socialist movement (he had even been named by Frederick Engels as Karl Marx’s literary executor). Bernstein had recently come out as an open supporter of reformism, then known as revisionism. His argument, which has been echoed by reformist politicians and thinkers many times since, was that capitalism was overcoming its tendency towards crisis, and blunting rather than sharpening the antagonism between workers and capitalists. This created a framework in which the socialist movement should push for piecemeal reform, rather than the revolutionary overthrow of the system. Luxemburg, a 27 year old Polish Marxist who arrived in Germany only in 1898, produced the most powerful refutation of Bernstein. She would go on to establish herself as a major figure within the socialist movement—organised through the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD, the Social Democratic Party). Full text: