The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II: Economic Writings 2: Vol. II - Softcover

"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

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.