Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution?

The project:

Rosa Luxemburg was a German socialist philosopher, thinker, and activist who was born in March 1871. This year would have been her 150th birthday. On this occassion, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Beirut seeks to conduct a book project inviting young researchers, artists and activists to engage with and discuss her life, her ideas and her work and relate it to today's notions and experiences of revolution, crisis, reform, resistance, activism, change and uprising. The book seeks to include different formats as photography, essays, poems, pictures, comics and studies.

The projects invites especially young artists and researchers or those who are at the beginning of their career to engage with the ideas and the person of Rosa Luxemburg and to relate those to their own experiences and ideas of activism, uprising, revolutions and crisis (in Lebanon or in general). The project of the art/research production will be mentored and supported. 

The organizers:

The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Beirut Office is the regional office of the German, non-profit organization Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.

In May 2017, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung’s Beirut Office opened its doors in Beirut. Closely affiliated with Germany’s left party “Die Linke”, the foundation has been working to promote democratic and social change across the globe since 1990. Through cooperation with local and international partners, we aim to foster alternative economic development, and to empower disadvantaged groups, while also focusing on conflict prevention, and post-conflict reconciliation. Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung’s objectives are to provide political education programs, support academic research and insights into social dynamics, and offer assistance to civil society initiatives.