A giant of the political left Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of
revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself
heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women. She overcame physical infirmity
and the prejudice she faced as a Jew to become an active revolutionary whose philosophy
enriched every corner of an incredibly productive and creative life—her many friendships her
sexual intimacies and her love of science nature and art. Always opposed to the First World
War when others on the German left were swept up on a tide of nationalism she was imprisoned
and murdered in 1919 fighting for a revolution she knew to be doomed. In this beautifully
drawn work of graphic biography writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s
intellectual world to a new audience grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an
inspirational and deeply affecting life.
