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

Author(s): Rosa Luxemburg
Editor(s): Peter Hudis
Release Date: Nov 04, 2014
Publisher: Verso
ISBN-10: 178168765X
ISBN-13: 978-1784783921
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This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg’s most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.

In addition to a new translation of her doctoral dissertation, “The Industrial Development of Poland,” Volume I includes the first complete English-language publication of her “Introduction to Political Economy,” which explores (among other issues) the impact of capitalist commodity production and industrialization on noncapitalist social strata in the developing world. Also appearing here are ten recently discovered manuscripts, none of which has ever before been published in English.

Loop Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), May 16 2016

J. Paetkau, “Red Rosa: On Economic Expansion and Militarism,” Useful Illusions, Nov. 14, 2015

Paul Buhle, “Rosa Luxemburg, Complete (or getting there) and Astounding,” DSA, July 23, 2015


“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


“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


“One of the most emotionally intelligent socialists in modern history, a radical of luminous dimension whose intellect is informed by sensibility, and whose largeness of spirit places her
in the company of the truly impressive.”

—Vivian Gornick, Nation