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Róża Luksemburg: ekonomia (bardzo) polityczna
Rosa Luxemburg: a (very) political economy

Author(s): Maciej Szlinder
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Rosa Luxemburg; political economy; relative wage; labour unions; monetary circuit; economic crisis; neoliberalism

Summary/Abstract: This article attempts to prove the political relevance of Luxemburg’s achievements in political economy. It presents the current usages of Luxemburg’s concepts in finance theory and theory of monetary circuit and shows its usefulness in explaining the present economic crisis as well as in building proper revolutionary strategies in reaction to catastrophic consequences of neoliberal capitalism. The author argues that Luxemburg’s perspective is in-between a working class perspective and capital’s perspective (in Harry Cleaver’s terms) and emphasizes the political character of her solutions to problems in economic theory.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 253-273
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish