The Accumulation of Capital

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The Accumulation of Capital is a seminal Marxist economic treatise by Rosa Luxemburg that analyzes imperialism and capitalist expansion through the lens of capital accumulation and its contradictions.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Marxist work
book
economic treatise
analyzes expanded reproduction
realization of surplus value
role of non-capitalist markets
argues capitalism requires non-capitalist environments for realization of surplus value
capitalist accumulation has inherent contradictions
imperialism is driven by the need for new markets
author Rosa Luxemburg
countryOfOrigin Germany
criticizes revisionist Marxism
underconsumptionist explanations of crisis
discusses militarism and accumulation
relationship between capitalism and colonialism
reproduction schemes in Volume II of Capital
fieldOfStudy development economics
imperialism studies
political economy
followedBy The Accumulation of Capital: An Anti-Critique
genre Marxist theory
political economy
hasPart The Dissolution of Non-Capitalist Environments
The Historical Conditions of Accumulation
The Problem of Realization
The Struggle Against Natural Economy
influenced Marxist theories of imperialism
dependency theory
world-systems theory
mainSubject capital accumulation
capitalist expansion
economic crises
imperialism
notableFor controversial interpretation of Marx’s reproduction schemes
systematic analysis of accumulation and imperialism
originalLanguage German
originalTitle Die Akkumulation des Kapitals
philosophicalTradition Western Marxism
positionWithinAuthorWork major theoretical work of Rosa Luxemburg
publicationYear 1913
relatedWork Capital, Volume II
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
The Accumulation of Capital: An Anti-Critique
subjectOf debates in Marxist economics
theoreticalFramework Marxism
timePeriodDiscussed early 20th century imperialism
late 19th century capitalism

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
notableWork
The Accumulation of Capital ("The Accumulation of Capital: An Anti-Critique")
followedBy
The Accumulation of Capital ("The Historical Conditions of Accumulation")
hasPart
The Accumulation of Capital ("Die Akkumulation des Kapitals")
originalTitle
The Accumulation of Capital ("The Accumulation of Capital: An Anti-Critique")
relatedWork

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