V I Lenin

Rosa Luxemburg's Unsuccessful Addition to Marx's Theory

Lenin read Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital in 1913, critically annotating it ( 'Marginal Notes on Rosa Luxemburg's book Accumulation of Capital ' ). In March
1913 he wrote to the publishers of the Russian Journal Sotsialdemokrat
in Paris: 'I have just read Rosa's new book ... She has got into a
shocking muddle. She has distorted Marx. I'm very glad that Pannekoek,
Eckstein and Otto Bauer have all condemned her book with one accord and
used the same arguments which I already used in Number 4 of
Prosveshchenie .' (Lenin, Works, Volume 35, pp 93-4. According to a footnote , Lenin
drew up a plan of the article and this document is apparently the
outline of that article.

(S.322)*

Roughly:

I. 14 years ago. Narodniks versus marxists.

Legal marxists and social-democrats

II. Distortion by R. Luxemburg.

III. State of theoretical problems.

IV. Rosa Luxemburg's ["additions"] Criticism. Anti-Criticism.

V.  Rosa Luxemburg's "addition". Failure

V. bis . German Social-Democrat Press and
the "Trouble-maker".

VI. Dialectics and Eclectics

VII.Imperialism and realization  Surplus-value (Rothstein etc.)

* On p.322 [p.351 Eng. ed.] R Luxemburg writes of the
necessity to supplement ['correct' Eng. Ed.] (zu ergänzen)
Marx. (Soviet editor.)