Rosa Luxemburg’s Global Class Analysis

Authors
Publication date 2016
Journal Historical Materialism
Volume | Issue number 24 | 1
Pages (from-to) 135-159
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract How did Rosa Luxemburg, in her The Accumulation of Capital and other writings, analyse the development of the working class and other subordinate classes under capitalism, and how did she view the relationship between these classes and those living in ‘natural economic societies’? Following primary sources closely, the present essay reconstructs and evaluates Luxemburg’s class analysis of global society. It is shown that Luxemburg pioneered a truly global concept of solidarity from below, including the most oppressed – women and colonised peoples.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206X-12341451
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