The Accumulation of Capital (Routledge Classics)

Luxemburg, Rosa

ISBN 10: 0415304458 / ISBN 13: 9780415304450

Published by Routledge, 2003

About this Item

Brand New.

Seller Inventory # 007795

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Accumulation of Capital (Routledge Classics)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415304458
• ISBN 13: 9780415304450
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Theory-Philosophy

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919). Polish-born revolutionary who was a leader of the left-wing movement in Germany from 1898 until her murder in 1919.

Translated by Agnes Schwarzschild.