Moving the State: The Politics of Democratic Decentralization in Kerala, South Africa, and Porto Alegre

by Patrick Heller, Politics & Society, Vol. 29 No. 1, March 2001 131-163

Over the past decade, a large number of developing countries have made the transition from authoritarian rule to democracy. The rebirth of civil societies, the achievement of new freedoms and liberties have all been celebrated with due enthusiasm. But now that the euphoria of these transitions has passed, we are beginning to pose the sobering question of what difference democracy makes to development, or to be more precise, whether democracy can help redress the severe social and economic inequalities that characterize developing countries.

Organisational Questions of the Russian Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg

by Rosa Luxemburg, 1904, LibCom

This text is a translation of two articles entitled 'Organisational Questions of Russian Social Democracy', written by Rosa Luxemburg in 1904.

The translation was made by the United Workers' Party in America and first published in Britain in Pamphlet form in 1935 by the Anti- Parliamentary Communist Federation. It was later republished by the Independent Labour Party in the 1960s and went under the title of "Leninism or Marxism?" This text was scanned from the ILP pamphlet. In the 1935 edition, several of the paragraphs were transposed. This version follows the 1935 edition, except for a few grammatical amendments.