[VIDEO] 'The Greatest Mind Since Marx'
Political Theorist Dana Mills discusses her new book on Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg was one of the most influential thinkers, writers, and revolutionaries of the 20th century, though her remarkable life was cut violently short by assassins who would go onto become part of the Nazi party. Dana Mills’ new genre-bending book on the life and work of Luxemburg is illuminating and engaging, and this month we’re fortunate enough to have her as our guest on the Deconstructing Consent Podcast.
Watch the show to learn more about Luxemburg’s iconoclastic thinking and work on a range of issues including nationalism, revolution, colonialism, empire, labor activism, pedagogy, populism, and revolution. Mills’ book also intervenes brilliantly in the literature on Luxemburg by identifying and convincingly arguing for the socialist dynamo’s environmentalism. If you enjoy the show, consider contributing to the Toledo Translation Fund, which will go towards paying professional translators of what may end up being the most important and comprehensive Luxemburg project in the English language - The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.
Mills and other scholars are currently hard at work editing this massive seventeen-volume collection, which will make the entirety of Luxemburg’s writing available in the English language for the first time in history. The project is already contracted for publication upon its completion, but the translators’ efforts making Luxemburg’s multi-lingual works all available in English deserves to be funded.
You can learn more about the project, here.
“For me the voice of the birds is inseparable from their habitat and their life as a whole, it is only the whole that interests me, rather than any detached detail.” - Rosa Luxemburg
Excellent interview!