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Peter Hudis

Determinism and Freedom: A Review of Michael Löwy’s Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark

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Few thinkers in the radical left have had a more sustained and creative engagement with the thought of Rosa Luxemburg than Michael Löwy. After encountering several of her works as a teenager in Brazil in the mid-1950s, he arrived in France in the early 1960s with the “conscious and deliberate objective”[1] of providing a “Luxemburgist”…

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The Dialectic of the Spatial Determination of Capital: Rosa Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital Reconsidered

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Rosa Luxemburg is renowned for being the first post-Marx Marxist to argue that the accumulation of capital hinges not only on the internal temporal dynamics of particular capitalist societies but most of all on capitalism’s spatial penetration and destruction of the non-capitalist world. Her emphasis on capital’s inherent drive to consume and destroy indigenous communal…

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The Vision of the New Society in Marx’s Capital

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Marx’s Capital has been heralded for many things, but providing an exhaustive account of a future socialist society isn’t one of them. And for good reason, since it is exclusively concerned with delineating the law of motion of capitalism. Nevertheless, Marx’s univocal focus on the critique of capital is precisely what enables him to develop…

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