The Accumulation of Capital With a new introduction by Tadeusz Kowalik

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.


Table of Contents

Introduction to the Routledge Classics edition by Tadeusz Kowalik
Translator's Note
A Note on Rosa Luxemburg
Introduction
Section One - The Problem of Reproduction
Section Two - Historical Exposition of the Problem
Section Three - The Historical Conditions of Accumulation
Index