Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for herbeliefs. In January 1919 after being arrested for her involvement in aworkers uprising i... » 

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for herbeliefs. In January 1919 after being arrested for her involvement in aworkers uprising in Berlin she was brutally murdered by a group of rightwingsoldiers. Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earlier shehad published what was undoubtedly her finest achievement The Accumulation ofCapital a book which remains one of the masterpieces of socialist literature.Taking Marx as her starting point she offers an independent and fiercelycritical explanation of the economic and political consequences of capitalismin the context of the turbulent times in which she lived reinterpreting eventsin the United States Europe China Russia and the British Empire. Many todaybelieve there is no alternative to global capitalism. This book is a timely andforceful statement of an opposing view. «