Collected Writings of Rosa Luxemburg – serie

This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg''s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg''s most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations. In addition to a new translation of her doctoral dissertation, "The Industrial Development of Poland," Volume I includes the first complete English-language publication of her "Introduction to Political Economy," which explores (among other issues) the impact of capitalist commodity production and industrialization on non- capitalist social strata in the developing world. Also appearing here are ten recently discovered manuscripts, none of which has ever before been published in English.

The second volume in Rosa Luxemburg''s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 2, contains a new English translation of Luxemburg''s The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Imperialism, one of the most important works ever composed on capitalism''s incessant drive for self-expansion and the integral connection between capitalism and imperialism. This new translation is the first to present the full work as composed by the author. It also contains her book-length response to her critics,The Accumulation of Capital, Or, What the Epigones Have Made Out of Marx''s Theory-An Anti-Critique. Taken together, these two works represent one of the most important Marxist studies of the globalization of capital.Also included is an essay on the second and third volumes of Marx''s Capital, which had originally appeared as an unattributed chapter in Franz Mehring''s book Karl Marx.Thank you to David Gaharia for helping to support the translation of this book.

This collection is the first of three volumes of the Complete Works devoted to the central theme of Rosa Luxemburg''s life and work-revolution. Spanning the years 1897 to the end of 1905, they contain speeches, articles, and essays on the strikes, protests, and political debates that culminated in the 1905 Russian Revolution-one of the most important social upheavals of modern times. Luxemburg''s near-daily articles and reports during 1905 on the ongoing revolution (which comprises the bulk of this volume) shed new light on such issues as the relation of spontaneity and organization, the role of national minorities in social revolution, and the inseparability ofthe struggle for socialism from revolutionary democracy. We become witness to Luxemburg''s effort to respond to the impulses, challenges, and ideas arising from a living revolutionary process, which in turn becomes the source of much of her subsequent political theory-such as her writings on the mass strike, her strident internationalism, and her insistence that revolutionary struggle never take its eyes off of the need to transform the human personality.Virtually all of these writings appear in English for the first time (translated from both German and Polish) and many have only recently been identified as having been written by Luxemburg.