V I LENIN Marx's Theory (original) (raw)

Rosa Luxemburg's Unsuccessful Addition to Marx's Theory

Written: March-April 1913
First Published: 1933
Source: Lенинский СборникXXII, Партийное Издательство, Mосква, 1933, c347-8. (from the Leninskii Sbornik, [Lenin Miscellany], Party Publishing House, Moscow, 1933, pp347-8)
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Lenin read Rosa Luxemburg's _Accumulation of Capital_in 1913, critically annotating it ('Marginal Notes on Rosa Luxemburg's book Accumulation of Capital'). In March 1913 he wrote to the publishers of the Russian Journal Sotsialdemokrat_in Paris: 'I have just read Rosa's new book ... She has got into a shocking muddle. She has distorted Marx. I'm very glad that Pannekoek, Eckstein and Otto Bauer have all condemned her book with one accord and used the same arguments which I already used in Number 4 of_Prosveshchenie.' (Lenin, Works, Volume 35, pp 93-4. According to a footnote, Lenin drew up a plan of the article and this document is apparently the outline of that article.

(S.322)*

Roughly:

I. 14 years ago. Narodniks versus marxists.
Legal marxists and social-democrats

II. Distortion by R. Luxemburg.

III. State of theoretical problems.

IV. Rosa Luxemburg's ["additions"] Criticism. Anti-Criticism.

V. Rosa Luxemburg's "addition". Failure

V. bis. German Social-Democrat Press and the "Trouble-maker".

VI. Dialectics and Eclectics

VII.Imperialism and realization Surplus-value (Rothstein etc.)

* On p.322 [p.351 Eng. ed.] R Luxemburg writes of the necessity to supplement ['correct' Eng. Ed.] (zu ergänzen) Marx. (Soviet editor.)