Contributions by:
Peter Hudis
The Dialectic of the Spatial Determination of Capital: Rosa Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital Reconsidered
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2014: vol. 13, nos. 1-2
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…
Read Full Article...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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