The Accumulation of Capital

An important work for understanding capitalist society, The Accumulation of Capital is a brilliant study of the economic interpretation of imperialism.

Can capital accumulate indefinitely? Based on this classic concern of political economy, scientist, professor, and Marxist activist Rosa Luxemburg set out to find the answer. Her thesis argues that, for expansion and accumulation to occur, capitalism required its political arm, imperialism. In *The Accumulation of Capital*, Rosa Luxemburg describes and formulates the historical and social conditions that enable the expansion and accumulation of capital. Taking imperialism—with its violent, militarized, disintegrating, and exploitative policies against people and land—as a basis, as well as the international financial regime—through loans and speculation—Luxembourg exposes the global capitalist structure of accumulation and growth.

Translated by renowned author and political scientist Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira. Foreword by Fábio Mascaro Querido, professor in the Department and Graduate Program in Sociology at the State University of Campinas.

“Rosa Luxemburg [...] was and is an eagle.” – Vladimir Lenin

“[ The Accumulation of Capital is] his great book on Imperialism” – Hannah Arendt

“In light of the challenges of the present, Rosa Luxemburg becomes a great source of inspiration for a reinterpretation that is simultaneously Marxist and decolonial (and, why not, ecological) of modern capitalism.” – Fábio Mascaro Querido