The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II

Economic Writings 2

Rosa Luxemburg author George Shriver translator Nicholas Gray translator Paul Le Blanc editor Peter Hudis editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Verso Books

Published:19th May '15

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The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II cover

Rosa Luxemburg's theoretical masterpiece

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.

"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."

ISBN: 9781781688526

Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 36mm

Weight: 933g

608 pages