[OPE-L:8518] Rosa Luxemburg's *Accumulation of Capital* is now reprinted

From: Paul Zarembka (zarembka@buffalo.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 16:03:49 EST


List members:

Rosa Luxemburg's *Accumulation of Capital* is now reprinted in a new
(paper) edition with a fine 'Introduction' by Tadeusz Kowalik, Routledge
Classics, 2003, 9.99 pounds, $14.95 U.S.

Please note that the middle paragraph on p. 339 was NOT in the 1951
English translation.  Alejandro Ramos translated it from the German
original for my own work in Volume 18 of the *Research* and I passed it
along to the editor of this new edition.  For those specializing in such
matters, the additional paragraph is non-trivial.

For those with the 1951 edition the relevant passage is missing on p. 359
of the English translation, i.e., before the paragraph beginning with
"Between the production of surplus value..." [Unfortunately the pagination
is not the same in the two editions.]

	     "Wohlgemerkt mu hervorgehoben werden, da, wenn wir oben
annahmen, die erste oder die zweite Abteilung realisiere im
nichtkapitalistischen Milieu nur ihr Mehrprodukt, wir dabei den fr die
Nachprfung des Marxschen Schemas gnstigsten Fall nahmen, der die
Beziehungen der Reproduktion in ihrer Reinheit zeigt. In Wirklichkeit
zwingt uns nichts zu der Annahme, da nicht auch ein Teil des konstanten
und variablen Kapitals im Produkt der entsprechenden Abteilung auerhalb
der kapitalistischen Kreise realisiert wird. Hintennach mag sowohl die
Erweiterung der Produktion wie auch zum Teil die Erneuerung der
verbrauchten Produktionselemente in ihrer Sachgestalt durch Produkte
nichtkapitalistischer Kreise vorgenommen werden. Was durch die obigen
Beispiele klargemacht werden sollte, ist die Tatsache, da zum mindesten
der zu kapitalisierende Mehrwert und der ihm entsprechende Teil der
kapitalistischen Produktenmasse unmglich innerhalb der kapitalistischen
Kreise realisiert werden kann und unbedingt auerhalb dieser Kreise, in
nichtkapitalistisch produzierenden Gesellschaftsschichten und ?formen,
seine Abnehmer suchen mu."

[The English translation is as follows:]
	     "It must be noted that, when we assumed above that only the
surplus product of the first or the second department is realized in a
non?capitalist milieu, we were taking the most favorable case for
examining Marx's schemes, a case which shows the conditions of
reproduction in its purity.  In reality, nothing forces us to assume that
there is not a fraction of the constant and variable capital which is also
realized out of the capitalist realm. Accordingly, the expansion of
production as well as the replacement in kind of the materials consumed in
production may be undertaken by means of products from the non?capitalist
sphere.  What should be clear from the above?mentioned examples is the
fact that, at least, it is impossible that the capitalized surplus value
and the corresponding part of the capitalist output can be realized within
the capitalist realm; this part must be sold out of the capitalist sphere,
in social strata and forms which do not produce in capitalist way."
[translated by Alejandro Ramos-Martinez]

Paul

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