The Accumulation of Capital

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.

'The Accumulation of Capital is arguably the most important advance on Marx's political economy to date. Written by a working-class revolutionary leader who begins by critically analyzing Marx's draft Volume 2 of Capital and ends by relating to militarism, Luxemburg develops a theoretical foundation for the global drive and structural crisis of capitalism. Although opposed by contemporaries Lenin and Bukharin, her book has passed historical test and can be avoided only at our peril.' - Paul Zarembka '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

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