Imperialism and the Process of Capitalist Decline

Tadeusz Kowalik

Chapter 8 in Rosa Luxemburg, 2014, pp 119-130 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Including in the analysis of accumulation process the issue of the non-capitalist environment and its role in the development of capitalism, Rosa Luxemburg was trying to create a theory of capitalist development that would be much more general than the Marxian theory. While in Marx, the concept of ‘capital’ was expressed solely by social relations between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, for Luxemburg the concept expressed the dominance over both the proletariat and the precapitalist environment, sucked into the mechanism of global capitalist production, thus, in modern terms, dominance over underdeveloped countries and areas.

Keywords: Capitalist Development; Class Struggle; Marxian Theory; Colonial Nation; Capitalist Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137428349_9

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