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The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume 1: Economic Writings I

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First volume of a major project to publish the complete works of a remarkable social theorist

This first volume of Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings I, will contain some of Luxemburg’s most important writings on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism and pre-capitalist economic formations, most of which have never before appeared in English. In addition to including a new translation of her doctoral dissertation, The Industrial Development of Poland, it will include the first complete English translation of her Introduction to Political Economy, which explores (among other issues) the impact of capitalist commodity production and industrialization upon non-capitalist social strata in the developing world.

The volume will also include ten recently discovered manuscripts, all of which will appear in English for the first time.

Hardback, 464 pages

ISBN: 9781844679744

July 2013

$95.00 / £50.00 / $78.50CAN

Other Editions

Ebook

ISBN: 9781844679751

July 2013

$39.99

Reviews

  • “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.'”
  • “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.”

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  • Why not in paperback?

    The price of the hardback edition is prohibitively expensive to all except academics. How about a paperback edition for the rest of us?

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