ABSTRACT
The life and work of Rosa Luxemburg has now passed sufficiently into the general political culture so that one has no difficulty in placing her in the political theory canon. The editors of the Reader remark that she refused the suggestion of a number of SPD leaders that she devote herself to the women's section of the SPD after her arrival in Germany. Luxemburg's Social Reform or Revolution, sometimes appearing with a shortened title, is one of her three or four most major works. Even other parts of Marx are theorizing, such as the work on utopian socialism and Fourier and Saint-Simon would help to sustain a line of critique that would move against Eduard Bernstein and his like. The use of the phrase benevolent murderers signals Luxemburg's contempt for those who cry crocodile tears for volcano victims, but who have brutalized the populations of the Caribbean and African nations through the slave trade and in oth.
