Naslov
Rosa Luxemburg and ‘woman question’: From theory of accumulation to social reproduction theory

Autori
Čakardić, Ankica

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Revolutions Against Capital, Capital Against Revolutions?: Historical Materialism

Mjesto i datum
London, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 09.11.2017. - 12.11.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Rosa Luxemburg

Sažetak
Rosa Luxemburg is one the most important and famous revolutionaries and Marxists of all times. Yet, interpretations of her economic theory are not that numerous. If economic analyses of Luxemburg’s works are rare, even rarer are feminist engagements with her The Accumulation of Capital. This article aims to represent some of the key points of Rosa Luxemburg's critique of political economy. Mainly referring to her most comprehensive work The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Imperialism we will present several interrelated points of Luxemburg’s economic critique: her understanding of capitalist production and reproduction, exchange, consumption, and accumulation. Luxemburg claims that imperialism in general represents a specific mode of accumulation. That position represents the starting point for her theory of reproduction, as well as her critique of Marx, mainly of the second volume of Capital. In an attempt to develop an “addendum” for Marx’s theory of expanded reproduction, Luxemburg develops her own theory of accumulation based on the relation between capitalist and non- capitalist spatiality. Her analysis of the capital accumulation process is rooted in a complex critique of Capital which we will shortly illustrate along three subjects: (1) the question of external trade, (2) the formula for the value composition of commodities = c + v + s and (3) the problem of demand in social reproduction. After The Accumulation of Capital was published, friends and enemies alike piled sharp criticism upon Luxemburg for “distorting” Marx, claiming that her "underconsumptionist" theory was too crude. While being in prison in 1915, where she was consigned for opposing World War I, Luxemburg wrote an Anti- Critique, a sort of polemic answer to her critics – “epigones”, as she named them. Her Anti- Critique was not published until 1921, exactly two years after she was executed by Freikorps troops.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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