Helen Scott is associate professor and director of undergraduate English studies at the University of Vermont in Burlington. She edited The Essential Rosa Luxemburg (Haymarket, 2008), and is the author of Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization (Ashgate, 2006). Her ISR articles include: “Rosa Luxemburg: in the Storm of Struggle,” (ISR 81, January– February 2012), “Lenin and Luxemburg,” (ISR 59, May–June 2008), and “The Mark Twain They Didn’t Teach Us in School” (ISR 10, Winter 2000).