Description
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) is widely regarded as one of the most creative writers of modern socialism and the foremost female theoretician of European radicalism. Her wide-ranging and incisive works, which include studies on capitalism's inherent drive for global expansion, the relation between spontaneity and organization, and the inseparability of democracy and socialism, have made her a pole of attraction for theorists and activists around the world. Her fiercely independent intellect and uncompromising defense of human liberty speaks more powerfully to our era than to any other.
This volume contains a new English translation of Luxemburg's most important book, The Accumulation of Capital (1913) as well as her response to its critics. Taken together, they constitute one of the most important Marxist studies of the globalization of capital.
Thank you to David Gaharia for helping to support the translation of this book.
Rosa Luxemburg's theoretical masterpiece
About the Author
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was a Polish-born Jewish revolutionary and one of the greatest theoretical minds of the European socialist movement. An activist in Germany and Poland, the author of numerous classic works, she participated in the founding of the German Communist Party and the Spartacist insurrection in Berlin in 1919. She was assassinated in January of that year and has become a hero of socialist, communist and feminist movements around the world.
Reviews
"One cannot read the writings of Rosa Luxemburg, even at this distance, without an acute yet mournful awareness of what Perry Anderson once termed 'the history of possibility.'" --Christopher Hitchens, "Atlantic" "Luxemburg's criticism of Marxism as dogma and her stress on consciousness exerted an influence on the women's liberation movement which emerged in the late '60s and early '70s." --Sheila Rowbotham, "Guardian" "One of the most emotionally intelligent socialists in modern history, a radical of luminous dimension whose intellect is informed by sensibility, and whose largeness of spirit places her in the company of the truly impressive." --Vivian Gornick, "Nation" "From the Hardcover edition."
Book Information
ISBN 9781781688526
Author Rosa Luxemburg
Format Hardback
Page Count 608
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 933g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 36mm
This volume contains a new English translation of Luxemburg's most important book, The Accumulation of Capital (1913) as well as her response to its critics. Taken together, they constitute one of the most important Marxist studies of the globalization of capital.
Thank you to David Gaharia for helping to support the translation of this book.
Rosa Luxemburg's theoretical masterpiece
About the Author
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was a Polish-born Jewish revolutionary and one of the greatest theoretical minds of the European socialist movement. An activist in Germany and Poland, the author of numerous classic works, she participated in the founding of the German Communist Party and the Spartacist insurrection in Berlin in 1919. She was assassinated in January of that year and has become a hero of socialist, communist and feminist movements around the world.
Reviews
"One cannot read the writings of Rosa Luxemburg, even at this distance, without an acute yet mournful awareness of what Perry Anderson once termed 'the history of possibility.'" --Christopher Hitchens, "Atlantic" "Luxemburg's criticism of Marxism as dogma and her stress on consciousness exerted an influence on the women's liberation movement which emerged in the late '60s and early '70s." --Sheila Rowbotham, "Guardian" "One of the most emotionally intelligent socialists in modern history, a radical of luminous dimension whose intellect is informed by sensibility, and whose largeness of spirit places her in the company of the truly impressive." --Vivian Gornick, "Nation" "From the Hardcover edition."
Book Information
ISBN 9781781688526
Author Rosa Luxemburg
Format Hardback
Page Count 608
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 933g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 36mm
