The Accumulation of CapitalRosa 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. |
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accumulation of capital Adam Smith additional aggregate product agriculture amount analysis annual bourgeois British Bulgakov capitalist accumulation capitalist class capitalist economy capitalist production capitalists of Department circulating capital civilisation constant capital consumer countries created crises demand duction economic England enlarged reproduction entrepreneurs expansion of production exploitation fact farmer fixed capital hand historical Ibid income increase individual capitalist individual capitals industry investment Kirchmann labour power labour productivity land machine manufacture Marx Marx’s diagram means of production means of subsistence ment mode of production non-capitalist organisation problem product of Department productive forces profit progress quantity railway rate of exploitation raw materials rent revenue Ricardo Rodbertus Rosa Luxemburg Russia simple commodity simple reproduction Sismondi social capital social product supply surplus product surplus value theory tion Tugan Baranovski variable capital volume Vorontsov wage labour wages whole workers