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In this essay, Park argues that Luxemburg’s Accumulation emerges out of her attempt to find the relevance of Marx’s Capital, Volumes II and III for the Socialist International, her study of the function of militarism throughout human history, and her growing awareness in the first decade of the 1900s that European imperialism was the mark of a major crisis in capital accumulation. The Accumulation is to be read through her study on The Mass Strike in order to understand the way in which workers and other proletarianising classes tend to produce the social and political forms of struggle appropriate to the demands of the moment, one which never be understood without concern to the international conditions of empire.
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Park, J.F. (2016). On the Historical Conditions of Accumulation . In: Dellheim, J., Wolf, F. (eds) Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy. Luxemburg International Studies in Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60108-7_1
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