Author(s)

Jingyuan Bai ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Marxism, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China

Corresponding Author

Jingyuan Bai

ABSTRACT

Luxemburg was a famous revolutionary, theorist, and communist fighter of the Second International in Western Europe. Luxemburg's idea of "self-centralization" was proposed within a specific historical context. It underwent a historical process of evolution and development from germination to maturity. Luxemburg and Lenin had their own views on the differences in the organizational principles of the party. Luxemburg believed that the highly centralized organizational principle advocated by Lenin was not conducive to the exercise of democratic rights within the Party. This resulted in a minority of people grasping core rights and making corruption easier. However, Luxemburg's criticism of Lenin's "centralized system" did not take into account the actual situation of the Russian state and the practical challenges of its operation. The social situation and popular base of Russia under the feudal dictatorship of the czar were different from the relaxed social environment and strong democratic foundation of Germany. Therefore, Luxemburg's views were considered one-sided and limited. However, Luxemburg's concept of internal democracy also had a positive impact on Lenin's concept of "democratic centralism." At the same time, Luxemburg's concept of internal democracy also included a positive mention of Lenin's "democratic centralism" and advocated for the theoretical development of proletarian political parties.

KEYWORDS

Rosa Luxemburg; self-centralization; logic of historical evolution

CITE THIS PAPER

Jingyuan Bai,The Logic of the Historical Evolution of Rosa Luxemburg's Idea of "Self-Centralization". Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2024) Vol. 6: 127-133. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2024.060219.

REFERENCES

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[2] Rosa Luxembourg. "Luxembourg Anthology," People's Publishing House, pp. 120,124,134,416, 2012. 
[3] Translated by Hu Xiaochen and Zhu Xia." The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg," People's Publishing House, Vol. 1, pp. 185, 480, 2021.

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