Talk given to the Radical Anthropology Group at The Function Room, The Cock Tavern, 23 Phoenix Road, London NW1 1HB on 30 June 2015. Anthony Auerbach explores the posthumous career of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) as martyr and icon of a failed revolution, how her missing body became the object of several burials and how the burial site became the focus of annual funeral rites. Auerbach considers the historical expectation of revolution in the light of a cult that compels repetition. Anthony Auerbach is an artist and co-runs the exhibition programme at The Function Room, upstairs at The Cock Tavern.
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