The Accumulation of Capital

Posted on 05 February 2018 by Rosa Luxemburg

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. New Read The Accumulation of Capital [ by ] Rosa Luxemburg [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr In a day when Marxist thought in America is all too frequently associated with vague hippie sentiment, it s good to know that one can be a passionate revolutionary and a rigorous analytical thinker at the same time How refreshing is that The problem at the heart of The Accumulation of Capital is simple how is it that, dealing with a finite amount of resources, laborers, and consumers, capitalist economies are able to grow Luxemburg points to the engine of imperialism We take such ideas large In a day when Marxist thought in America is all too frequently associated with vague hippie sentiment, it s good to know that one can be a passionate revolutionary and a rigorous analytical thinker at the same time How refreshing is that The problem at the heart of The Accumulation of Capital is simple how is it that, dealing with a finite amount of resources, laborers, and consumers, capitalist economies are able to grow Luxemburg points to the engine of imperialism We take such ideas largely for granted now all of you who have read Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, or any of the other popular expositors of the North American left could cite any number of examples but this concept was still revolutionary in the early 20th Century Much of the book is made up of molasses slow, formula heavy economics, so it s probably not for everyone But the third...I make no judgment of Luxemburg s criticisms of Marx or other theorists In her view, the accumulation of capital is not the primary result of exploiting labor that is already working in capitalist industrial production That labor assures the reproduction of the system itself Accumulation of capital is based on continuous cycles of what Marx called primitive accumulation The techniques of this accumulation are, in my own words, enslavement, colonization, and land rape There is a limit to...One of the first Marxist accounts of the function of imperialism and stratified modes of development Last chapter is clearly the most important Anticipates loan structures on newly nationalized nations and social movements t...The Accumulation of Capital was published in 1913 and represents the last gasp of a pre 1914 version of Marxism an intellectual world close enough in time to Marx and Engels that they could be treated as living, breathing people rather than ideological tin gods Rosa Luxemburg, because she notionally favoured revolution over reform , is often classed...Rosa Luxemburgo desarroll los an lisis de Marx del problema de la realizaci n, pero cambi la inflexi n del an lisis Luxemburgo conjetur sobre el hecho que los consumidores exteriores en tanto otros adem s de los capitalistas son esenciales pp 365 66 para que el capital pueda realizar su plusval a, se alando esto como una indicaci n de la dependencia que el capital tiene de su exterior El capitalismo es el primer modo de econom a que es incapaz de existir por s mismo, que necesita de Rosa Luxemburgo desarroll los an lisis de Marx del problema de la realizaci n, pero cambi la inflexi n del an lisis Luxemburgo conjetur sobre el hecho que los consumidores exteriores en tanto otros adem s de los capitalistas son esenciales pp 365 66 para que el capital pueda realizar su plusval a, se alando esto como una indicaci n de la dependencia que el capital tiene de su exterior El capitalismo es el primer modo de econom a que...I can t begin to say that I actually understood all of this The book is split into three parts the first outlines the problem, the second deals with theoretical attempts to overcome it, the last part deals with Luxemburg s own approach I understood the second and...Not the best economics books around but if u enjoy theories and formulas behind capitalism and trade read itEssential reading to anyone wanting to understand today s credit crunch and like all of Luxembourg s stuff, immensely readable. Introduction to the Routledge Classics EditionTranslator s NoteA Note on Rosa LuxemburgIntroduction The Accumulation of Capital Index

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