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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.

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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 (in praise of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg) Transports us directly into the private world of a woman who has never lost her inspirational power as an original thinker and courageous activist ... [and] reveals that the woman behind the mythic figure was also a compassionate, teasing, witty human being. - Sheila Rowbotham, Guardian (in praise of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg) This huge project is long overdue. Luxemburg's correspondence reveals an extraordinary range and breadth of concerns and interests. - Times Literary Supplement (in praise of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg) Rosa goes on being our source of fresh water in thirsty times. - Eduardo Galeano in praise of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg

Praise for The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg 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 Transports us directly into the private world of a woman who has never lost her inspirational power as an original thinker and courageous activist ... [and] reveals that the woman behind the mythic figure was also a compassionate, teasing, witty human being. Sheila Rowbotham, Guardian This huge project is long overdue. Luxemburg s correspondence reveals an extraordinary range and breadth of concerns and interests Times Literary Supplement Rosa goes on being our source of fresh water in thirsty times. Eduardo Galeano

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Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was a Polish-born Jewish revolutionary and one of the greatest theoretical minds of the European socialist movement. An activist in Germany and Poland, the author of numerous classic works, she participated in the founding of the German Communist Party and the Spartacist insurrection in Berlin in 1919. She was assassinated in January of that year and has become a hero of socialist, communist and feminist movements around the world.

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