Ep. 59 – Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital Part I

Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast

Join Rachel, John, and newly-appointed co-host Sid for the first entry in the first ever AAP podcast series, a multi-part exploration of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital. In Part I, the team examines Luxemburg’s account of the reproduction of capital, including its relationship to Marx’s Capital, the relation of individual capitalists to capitalism as a whole, the ‘superstructure’s’ role in reproduction, and more. What is particular about accumulation as capitalism’s form of expanded reproduction? What are the political stakes of Luxemburg’s analysis? How could we think through post-Fordism, the gig economy, and neoliberalism from the standpoint of Luxemburg? How many times can we preface a question with jokes about being vulgar Marxists? The (quasi-)answers to these and other riddles lurk in the episode.

Stay turned for the next installation of our Luxemburg series, coming your way in January.

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Links:

• Verso on Luxemburg; BBC program on Luxemburg
• The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II, from Verso
• On the writings of Rosa Luxemburg (letters)
  
• Quick lecture on Marx
• Harvey’s online courses on Marx
• Luxemburg as postcolonial theorist
• Summary of Accumulation of Capital
• A critique of Luxemburg
• Red Rosa, a graphic biography of Luxemburg