White, J. D. (2016) Rosa Luxemburg and Maxim Kovalevsky. In: Dellheim, J. and Wolf, F. O. (eds.) Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy. Series: Luxemburg International Studies in Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 93-121. ISBN 9781349956166 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-60108-7_4)
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Abstract
Karl Marx described him as ‘one of his scientific friends’, but although Maxim Kovalevsky is a key figure in the history of Marxism, he has been very little studied. In this chapter White examines the influence Kovalevsky’s pioneering book on the dissolution of communal landownership in Third World countries occupied by European powers had on Rosa Luxemburg’s Introduction to Political Economy and The Accumulation of Capital. By reconstructing Kovalevsky’s biography White reveals the Positivist source of Kovalevsky’s anti-imperialist stance, and shows how first Karl Marx and subsequently Rosa Luxemburg interpreted Kovalevsky’s findings in their respective economic writings. White establishes that through Kovalevsky there is a significant degree of continuity in the way Marx and Luxemburg approached the questions of the circulation and accumulation of capital.
| Item Type: | Book Sections |
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| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | White, Professor James |
| Authors: | White, J. D. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN: | 9781349956166 |
| Published Online: | 31 August 2016 |
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