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.