The enduring relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital

Bieler, Andreas; Bozkurt, Sümercan; Crook, Max; Cruttenden, Peter S.; Erol, Ertan; Morton, Adam David; Tansel, Cemal Burak; Uzgören, Elif

doi:10.1057/jird.2014.18

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“…In the Colombian case, the concept is useful to understand the 'forcible usurpation' of common property and subsequent acts of enclosures firstly by means of violence, predominantly by private and corporate interests, and later through law (Marx 1967, p. 724). The role of violence in this process is best theorized by Rosa Luxemburg, who argues that militarism serves a dual function of displacing peasant economies (accumulation by dispossession) and producing new markets for production and consumption of, for example, weapons and infrastructure for executing military endeavours (Luxemburg, 1988; see also Bieler et al, 2016;Schmidt, 2010).…”

Section: The Political Economy Of Militaristic Neoliberalismmentioning

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Militarized peace: understanding post-conflict violence in the wake of the peace deal in Colombia

Meger

Sachseder

2020

Globalizations

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After more than 50 years of war, in 2016, the Colombian government signed a historic peace accord with the country's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Although the cessation of hostilities between the rebel group and the government is a monumental step, violence remains rife in the country. By drawing attention to the correlation between neoliberal economic development in the country and militarism, this paper sheds light on several structural issues that have been left potentially unresolved by the peace negotiations, each with the potential to ignite further violence. We introduce the concept of militaristic neoliberalism to argue that there is a fundamental link between Colombia's neoliberal development and a culture of militarism, which relies on gendered and racialized constructions of 'self' and 'other', that exacerbate structural inequalities and severely hampers prospects for achieving peace for many of Colombia's citizens post-conflict.

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Section: The Political Economy Of Militaristic Neoliberalismmentioning

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Militarized peace: understanding post-conflict violence in the wake of the peace deal in Colombia

Meger

Sachseder

2020

Globalizations

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“…The reasons behind such conceptualisations are three-fold. (1) The narrow understanding of class formation and struggle which discounts the historically specific subjugation of nonwage, unpaid, reproductive, precarious, migrant and informal forms of labour to the capitalist value form and neglects the presence of labour and its 'lived' and 'perceived experience' in diverse modes (Barna et al, 2017;Bieler et al, 2016;Erdo gdu, 2018;Featherstone and Griffin, 2016;Hofmeester and Van der Linden, 2018;Luxemburg 2003Luxemburg [1913Wood, 2016Wood, [1982). (2) The conception of state as a separate entity from social relations which disregards the state-capital-class connections in the reproduction of capitalist domination and its repressive forms in times of crisis (cf Smith, 2015).…”

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Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey

Dönmez

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This paper aims to explore the growing and deepening trend of politics of repression coupled with prolonged crisis and austerity politics, reflecting on the potentials as well as limitations of progressive politics in such a constrained context. Austerity policies continue pushing for anti-labour and reactionary politics in a variety of forms reflecting the unresolved crisis conditions of contemporary capitalism. While the liberal democratic state-form remains relatively intact in particular contexts, in others, it gradually evolves into repressive forms. The growing repression risks conceiving the anti-authoritarian struggles and the anti-capitalist and labour movements separate and/or mutually exclusive. This review article draws on the recent insights of (de)politicization, labour geography and history and political economy scholarships with specific reference to the case of Turkey while cautioning against the binary thinking of ‘success’ and ‘failure’ in leftist and labour mobilisations. It proposes a historical perspective in order to appreciate the diversity and multiplicity of struggles against the intersecting nodes of austerity, capitalism and repression in the complex geographies of periphery.

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“…Since Rosa Luxemburg’s life and work has received only a small amount of recent attention in IR (Bieler et al, 2016; Worth, 2012), it is relevant to ask why she might be a person worth investigating. Her thought is potentially worth investigating for three reasons.…”

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“…In considering this problem Bieler et al (2016) argue that while some aspects of Luxemburg’s thought, such as viewing capitalism diffusing from Europe might place her in a Eurocentric mould, her depiction of the non-capitalist world and militarism do not. It is correct to note that Luxemburg continuously stressed the destruction wrought by imperialism and capitalism.…”

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Revisiting Rosa Luxemburg’s internationalism

O’Brien

2019

Journal of International Political Theory

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In an era where internationalism is on the retreat in the Western world, a modified version of Rosa Luxemburg’s thinking about internationalism can serve as a useful guide for those concerned about relations between peoples in different countries. Luxemburg contributes to existing internationalist, cosmopolitan and transnational approaches by offering a unique set of answers to questions about the appropriate ethics, political project and tools to be adopted. Her ethical stance of the universal worth of all people was informed both by a deep sense of empathy and her theoretical analysis of capitalism. She believed that citizens had a duty to hold their governments accountable for foreign policy and that the world formed a single system and community. The political project was one of radical transformation and equality. European nations faced the option of transforming into more egalitarian and peaceful societies or descending into barbarism. Central to this transformation was a constant struggle against militarism and imperialism. Key tools for transformation included mass mobilisation, vibrant democratic debate and revolutionary reform of the political system. Problematic aspects of Luxemburg’s internationalism that require revision include her insensitivity to the importance of national identity and Eurocentrism.

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The enduring relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Militarized peace: understanding post-conflict violence in the wake of the peace deal in Colombia

Militarized peace: understanding post-conflict violence in the wake of the peace deal in Colombia

Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey

Revisiting Rosa Luxemburg’s internationalism

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