Rosa Luxemburg's theory of imperialism and her critics: the era of the Second International ; La teoría del imperialismo de Rosa Luxemburg y sus críticos: la era de la Segunda Internacional

The book The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg, conceived in order to provide a theoretical basis for the fight against imperialism waged by the left wing of the German Social Democratic Party – and, by extension, of the Second International, was the subject of furious controversial from the moment of its publication in 1913. Our paper deals with the reception of that work within the Second International before the outbreak of the First World War, in the light of the documents in our recent book Discovering Imperialism: Social Democracy to World War I (Brill, 2012). These documents are... Mehr ...