The accumulation of capital. A contribution to the economic explanation of imperialism
The accumulation of capital. One contribution to the economic explanation of imperialism is an economic paper by Rosa Luxemburg from 1913. It was a decisive contribution to the imperialism debate in the run-up to the First World War .
Rosa Luxemburg's work was first published in 1913 by the social-democratic Vorwärts-Verlag and has been reprinted numerous times since then. Luxemburg refers theoretically to Karl Marx and his theory of " original accumulation " which he developed in the first volume of Capital . In the third section of the “accumulation of capital” in particular, Luxemburg examines the processes in which pre-capitalist economic and social forms are integrated into the capitalist economic cycle.
In the contemporary debate, Luxembourg thus provided an economic argumentation to criticize colonialism and the foreign policy crises resulting from colonial conflicts, such as the Moroccan crisis and the armament in pre-war Europe.
Luxemburg's argument was also based on Hilferding's 1910 publication Das Finanzkapital ; Lenin took up their argument anew in his 1916 work, The Imperialism as the Highest Stage of Capitalism against the Background of the World War.
In response to contemporary criticism in the social democratic press, Luxemburg wrote the anti-criticism , which was only published after her murder.
The work
- The accumulation of capital. A contribution to the economic explanation of imperialism . Buchhandlung Vorwärts Paul Singer, Berlin 1913 ( facsimile reprint Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 1966)
- The accumulation of capital. A contribution to the economic explanation of imperialism . Association of International Publishing Institutions, Berlin 1923 (Rosa Luxemburg. Collected Works VI) Digitized
- The accumulation of capital. A contribution to the economic explanation of imperialism . (Reprint of the 4th edition in 1923) New Criticism Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970
- The accumulation of capital. A contribution to the economic explanation of imperialism . In: Rosa Luxemburg. Collected Works . Volume 5: Economic Writings . Berlin 1985 pp. 6-411.
The anti-criticism
- The accumulation of capital, or what the epigones made of Marx's criticism. An anti-criticism . Franke, Leipzig 1921 digitized
- The accumulation of capital or what the epigones made of Marx's criticism. An anti-criticism . In: Rosa Luxemburg. Collected Works . Volume 5: Ökonomische Schriften, Berlin 1985. pp. 413-523.
Secondary literature
- Eduard Rosenbaum: Rosa Luxemburg. The accumulation of capital. A contribution to the economic explanation of imperialism. Berlin 1913 . In: World Economic Archive. Journal of the Institute for World Economy at the University of Kiel welcomed by Bernhard Harms. Mohr, Tübingen, Volume 4, 1914, pp. 259-262 ISSN 0043-2636
- Nikolaj Ivanovič Bukharin : Imperialism and the accumulation of capital. 2., unchanged. Edition (reprint from the magazine Unter dem Banner des Marxismus ) Vienna 1926 (Marxist Library, Volume 9)
- Anton Pannekoek : The collapse theory of capitalism . June 1934.
- Tony Cliff : Study on Rosa Luxemburg. VIII. The accumulation of capital , 1959.
- Isabel Loureiro: The Topicality of Rosa Luxemburg's “Accumulation of Capital” in Latin America . In: Yearbook for Research on the History of the Labor Movement , Issue II / 2013.
- Ingo Schmidt (Ed.): Rosa Luxemburg's »Accumulation of Capital«. The topicality of economic theory, declaration of imperialism and class analysis . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2013 ISBN 978-3-89965-557-5
Web links
- Full text on MLWerke.de
- 100 years of “accumulation of capital” on the website of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
- Georg Fülberth : on the topicality of the "accumulation of capital". jungewelt.de
Remarks
- ^ "Sp": The accumulation of capital (1) . In: Dresdner Volkszeitung . tape 24 , no. 16 , January 21, 1913, pp. 1 ( online ).
- ^ "Sp": The accumulation of capital (2) . In: Dresdner Volkszeitung . tape 24 , no. 17 , January 22, 1913, pp. 1 ( online ).
- ↑ Max Schippel : The basic secret of imperialism . In: Socialist monthly books . tape 19 , no. 3 , February 13, 1913, p. 147-152 ( online ).
- ^ Gustav Eckstein : Rosa Luxemburg: The accumulation of capital - A contribution to the economic explanation of imperialism . In: Forward . tape 30 , no. 40 , February 16, 1913, p. 13-14 ( online ).
- ↑ Gustav Eckstein: Superfluous excitement . In: Forward . tape 30 , no. 46 , February 23, 1913, p. 3 ( online ).
- ↑ Otto Bauer : The accumulation of capital (1) . In: The new time - weekly of the German social democracy . tape 31 , no. 23 , March 7, 1913, pp. 831-838 ( online ).
- ↑ Otto Bauer: The accumulation of capital (2) . In: The new time - weekly of the German social democracy . tape 31 , no. 24 , March 14, 1913, pp. 862-874 ( online ).