Is Luxemburgism an Ideology?

Luxemburgism isn't a tendency of its own, is what is meant by that statement. In fact, most people who call themselves Luxemburgists do so to distinguish themselves from 'Leninists.' There is nothing in Luxemburg's work that can be distinguished from Marxism in general. Therein she is simply a Marxist (albeit one of the more profound Marxist leaders).

Personally, I view Luxemburg, Lenin and Trotsky as part of an important discourse during those revolutionary years, and each of them have provided a wealth of important lessons to draw from. Luxemburg was a strong political leader and galvanized many toward the cause of socialism and self-emancipation. She made mistakes, mistakes that arguably cost her, her life down the road. But the same can be said of all three of those leaders. Mistakes were made. Of course they were made.

Her ideas at the time were simply Marxism, with perhaps a focus on the libertarian side of things.

However, the history of Socialist and Marxist thought changes from pre and post Russian Revolution. I think that now you can say people took Rosa's ideas and ran with them, creating a particular strain of Libertarian Marxism which is distinct from the practical applications of Marxism we have seen in history.

I personally identify as a Luxemburgist - to me this means a focus on keeping Democracy at the heart of Socialism (something which Marx did believe in) and utilisation of strike action without being a Democratic Socialist or a DeLeonist.

What I mean by this is that I am NOT a reformist, I subscribe to a mix of classical Marxist thought with a libertarian slant. Luxemburgist just sums it up more succinctly. :)

Yeah she was just a Marxist. I would basically say the same about Lenin though so maybe I'm just weird.

For me I identify as a Luxemburgist for a few reasons, firstly because it's easier to talk to none leftist than if I were to say "Orthodox Marxist" or "Council Communist." Secondly it is a way of pushing away Leninism while not wholesale rejecting some things, basically pushing away both Leninism and LeftCom (from my identity not necessarily others with that thought or tendency). Often when speaking to Anarchists I've found that things are smoother by identifying as a Luxemburgist rather than an Orthodox Marxist (though Council Communist is also pretty accepted). My tendencies are also very fickle, I really want to be an Anarchist, but can't quite get there as far as trust goes, but sometimes it changes, I find myself sort of being centered around Luxemburg. I've also found that Luxemburg/ism has a unifying aspect, like you said a lot of leftists Marxist or Anarchists have some affinity to her, I've found that being a "Luxemburgist" helps draw leftists together, so while ideologically it might be similar to others, in a material way there is a difference insofar as how it's taken by others. Lastly I settled on Luxemburgist because she kept coming up. I'd describe my ideas and they would say "like Luxemburg" or something along those lines and I went with it.

From the introduction to The Essential Rosa Luxemburg.

She has been cast as an anti-Leninist who denounced the allegedly anti-democratic actions of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution. Yet Luxemburg and Lenin were close allies for many years, and of the Bolsheviks in 1917 Luxemburg wrote: "Their October uprising was not only the actual salvation of the Russian Rev­olution; it was also the salvation of the honor of international social­ism." In turn, Lenin said of Luxemburg that "she was and is an eagle, and not only will she be dear to the memory of Communists in the whole world, but her biography and the complete edition of her works... will be a very useful lesson in the education of many generations of Communists."

She has been portrayed as a "spontaneist" who eschewed the vanguard party or any centralised leadership organisation; but in many of her most celebrated essays she repeats the fundamental lesson of The Mass Strike, where she writes that socialists "are the most enlightened, most class-conscious vanguard of the proletariat. They cannot and dare not wait, in a fatalist fashion, with folded arms for the advent of the 'revolutionary situation.'"

Luxemburg was far closer to Lenin than most make out.

Luxemburg was an orthodox Marxist, so if you like her id start there.

I answered to that comment of him/her in that thread. So for my view just read my comment there. But to make it short, if trozkyism is its own thing instead of being just called leninism then luxemburgism is its own thing and not just orthodox marxism.