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A review by jseicas
The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg
challenging
informative
slow-paced
3.5
A hard read, and difficult to consume. The narrator makes it easier than it would be in text, but I found myself having to frequently rewind to make sure I had caught all the details - best way to read the book is probably audio + text. Another issue was that I was not properly prepared for the contents of this book - I should have reread Capital, because I did not have a good grounding of classical economics in my head before starting this. That being said, you're able to pick up a lot of it from the chapters and chapters of analyses and criticisms she does, which usually end with a quippy and genuinely startling slam at that author's expense.
The final chapters (26 through 32) are the most interesting, as in those she transitions from analysis of other's theories into a historical review of proofs for her own theories (or proofs of Marx, excludingher critique and evolution of his theories in the inclusion of the state and other non-capitalist non-worker parties in society in her economical analyses ). It's very interesting to read this book right now, and draw parallels with the reach of the capitalist class in America as it suffers from its own metabolization of the american consumers and a lack of places to expand into.
If you've got the ability to trudge through it, I do feel like I learned some things. I'll have to continue on with some other analyses online and see if I got what other readers did.
The final chapters (26 through 32) are the most interesting, as in those she transitions from analysis of other's theories into a historical review of proofs for her own theories (or proofs of Marx, excluding
If you've got the ability to trudge through it, I do feel like I learned some things. I'll have to continue on with some other analyses online and see if I got what other readers did.