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The issue of the role of militarism for economic development in capitalism was brought up for the first time in the socialist literature by the ‘Narodnik’ V. Vorontsov.1 In the social democratic literature, this issue was taken up repeatedly and in an apologetic way by Max Schippel,2 with whom Rosa Luxemburg had already disputed on this topic at the end of the previous century. Nevertheless, these considerations were of a predominantly journalistic character.
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See M. Kalecki ‘Essay on the Business Cycle Theory’ reprinted in J. Osiatyński (ed.) Collected Works of Michał Kalecki, Volume I Capitalism, Business Cycles and Full Employment, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1990.
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Kowalik, T. (2014). Militarism and Economic Growth. In: Rosa Luxemburg. Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137428349_8
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