'The Accumulation of Capital is arguably the most important advance on Marx's political economy to date. Written by a working-class revolutionary leader who begins by critically analyzing Marx's draft Volume 2 of Capital and ends by relating to militarism, Luxemburg develops a theoretical foundation for the global drive and structural crisis of capitalism.
Although opposed by contemporaries Lenin and Bukharin, her book has passed historical test and can be avoided only at our peril.' - Paul Zarembka 'Rosa Luxemburg is one of the really big figures in the history of the international socialist movement and The Accumulation of Capital is unquestionably her magnum opus.' - New Statesman
A classic work that offers the reader an ideal overview of the ideas that marked out Read as a seminal and hugely influetial figure in the cultural life of the twentieth century.
Here this immensely influential twenty year old title is reissued due to its continuing relevance as a tool in understanding the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism.
'One of the great psychology classics of all time. One simply cannot be a serious student of intelligence without a careful reading and respectful appreciation of this book.' - Intelligence
'One of the most important documents of the twentieth century.' - Peter Medawar, New Scientist 'One of the most important philosophical works of our century.' - Richard Wollheim, Observer 'One cannot help feeling that, if it had been translated as soon as it had been originally published, philosophy in this country might have been saved some detours.
'This is more than a history of the French Revolution. It covers all of Europe during the revolutionary period…it also breaks new ground in its account of international relations, and sets the wars of intervention in their true light.' - A.J.P. Taylor
Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic.