Rosa Luxemberg and 1930's ICP

From: David A Biggs <david.biggs@ucr.edu>

Date: May 9, 2006 12:06 PM

Subject: [Vsg] Rosa Luxemberg and 1930's ICP

A student in one of my classes asked if I knew of any connection between

Rosa Luxemberg and early ICP activities in Indochina. A chapter in the

Owens book Emergence of SE Asia (p. 343) mentions that the soviets in the

Nghe Tinh uprising confused peasants with tributes to European martyrs such

as Rosa Luxemberg, but there's no indication of ICP leaders publishing

material on Luxemberg or other influential theorists. Does anyone know of

more significant connections between Luxemberg and radicalism in Vietnam or

possibly China?

David Biggs - Riverside

From: Shawn McHale <mchale@gwu.edu>

Date: May 9, 2006 6:45 PM

Subject: Re: [Vsg] Rosa Luxemberg and 1930's ICP

David,

I'm not sure that Vietnamese really knew anything about Rosa Luxemburg

other than that she was an important communist. At Nghe Tinh and even

before, Vietnamese communists celebrated the anniversary of the 3Ls--

Lenin, the German communist Karl Liebnecht, and Rosa Luxemburg. The

latter two, leaders of the Spartacist League, were killed in 1919 after

the abortive Spartacist uprising in Berlin.