The accumulation of capital / Rosa Luxemburg ; translated by Agnes Schwarzschild ; with a new introduction by Tadeusz Kowalik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919.

Series:

Routledge classics

Standardized Title:

Akkumulation des Kapitals. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Saving and investment.

Imperialism.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 453 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Section I The Problem of Reproduction 1

2 Quesnay's and Adam Smith's Analyses of the Process of Reproduction 19

3 A Criticism of Smith's Analysis 35

4 Marx's Scheme of Simple Reproduction 48

5 The Circulation of Money 65

6 Enlarged Reproduction 79

7 Analysis of Marx's Diagram of Enlarged Reproduction 92

8 Marx's Attempt to Resolve the Difficulty 111

9 The Difficulty Viewed from the Angle of the Process of Circulation 128

Section II Historical Exposition of the Problem 145

Round 1 Sismondi-Malthus v. Say-Ricardo-MacCulloch 145

10 Sismondi's Theory of Reproduction 147

11 MacCulloch v. Sismondi 165

12 Ricardo v. Sismondi 177

13 Say v. Sismondi 185

14 Malthus 194

Round 2 The Controversy between Rodbertus and von Kirchmann 201

15 v. Kirchmann's Theory of Reproduction 203

16 Rodbertus' Criticism of the Classical School 214

17 Rodbertus' Analysis of Reproduction 228

Round 3 Struve-Bulgakov-Tugan Baranovski v. Vorontsov-Nikolayon 247

18 A New Version of the Problem 249

19 Vorontsov and his 'Surplus' 255

20 Nikolayon 263

21 Struve's 'Third Persons' and 'Three World Empires' 271

22 Bulgakov and his Completion of Marx's Analysis 277

23 Tugan Baranovski and his 'Lack of Proportion' 290

24 The End of Russian 'Legalist' Marxism 303

Section III The Historical Conditions of Accumulation 307

25 Contradictions within the Diagram of Enlarged Reproduction 309

26 The Reproduction of Capital and its Social Setting 328

27 The Struggle against Natural Economy 348

28 The Introduction of Commodity Economy 366

29 The Struggle against Peasant Economy 375

30 International Loans 399

31 Protective Tariffs and Accumulation 426

32 Militarism as a Province of Accumulation 434.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415304458

OCLC:

51607183