Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earlier she had published what was undoubtedly her finest achievement, The Accumulation of Capital - a book which remains one of the masterpieces of socialist literature. Taking Marx as her starting point, she offers an independent and fiercely critical explanation of the economic and political consequences of capitalism in the context of the turbulent times in which she lived, reinterpreting events in the United States, Europe, China, Russia and the British Empire. Many today believe there is no alternative to global capitalism. This book is a timely and forceful statement of an opposing view.
Recenzijas
'Rosa Luxemburg is one of the really big figures in the history of the international socialist movement and The Accumulation of Capital is unquestionably her magnum opus.' - New Statesman
'This book, out of print for decades, is well worth reading ... one of her finest works.' - Labour Research
Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition, Translators Note, A
Note on Rosa Luxemburg, Introduction, SECTION I: The Problem of Reproduction,
1. The Object of our Investigation,
2. Quesnays and Adam Smiths Analyses of
the Process of Reproduction,
3. A Criticism of Smiths Analysis,
4. Marxs
Scheme of Simple Reproduction,
5. The Circulation of Money,
6. Enlarged
Reproduction,
7. Analysis of Marxs Diagram of Enlarged Reproduction,
8.
Marxs Attempt to Resolve the Difficulty,
9. The Difficulty Viewed from the
Angle of the Process of Circulation, SECTION II: Historical Exposition of the
Problem,
10. Sismondis Theory of Reproduction,
11. MacCulloch v. Sismondi,
12. Ricardo v. Sismondi,
13. Say v. Sismondi,
14. Malthus,
15. v. Kirchmanns
Theory of Reproduction,
16. Rodbertus Criticism of the Classical School,
17.
Rodbertus Analysis of Reproduction,
18. A New Version of the Problem,
19.
Vorontsov and his Surplus,
20. Nikolayon,
21. Struves Third Persons and
Three World Empires,
22. Bulgakov and his Completion of Marxs Analysis,
23. Tugan Baranovski and his Lack of Proportion,
24. The End of Russian
Legalist Marxism, SECTION III: The Historical Conditions of Accumulation,
25. Contradictions within the Diagram of Enlarged Reproduction,
26. The
Reproduction of Capital and its Social Setting,
27. The Struggle against
Natural Economy,
28. The Introduction of Commodity Economy,
29. The Struggle
against Peasant Economy,
30. International Loans,
31. Protective Tariffs and
Accumulation,
32. Militarism as a Province of Accumulation, Index
Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919). Polish-born revolutionary who was a leader of the left-wing movement in Germany from 1898 until her murder in 1919.
Translated by Agnes Schwarzschild.
