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Second, Rosa Luxemburg s Accumulation of Capital provides an exceptionally detailed examination of Marx s reproduction schema. Aznar (2004 253) argues that Luxemburg believed this book to be a continuation of Capital book 2, which Marx had left unfinished . Key to Luxemburg s interpretation is the role of demand, which she argues is obscured by Marx s specific focus on the question, Where does the money come from Marx is criticized for assuming that capital can accumulate unimpeded, without identifying how new capacity can be profitably realized. 

Similarly, Bleaney (1976 194) points out that Luxemburg clearly identifies the importance of demand for means of production as part of capital accumulation. It is not just demand for consumption goods that is important to capital accumulation hence the non-underconsumptionist character of Rosa Luxemburg s ideas . 

Bellofiore, R. (2004) Like a candle burning at both ends Rosa Luxemburg and the critique of political economy , Research in Political Economy, 21 279-98. 

Kalecki, M. (1971) The problem of effective demand with Tugan-Baranovski and Rosa Luxemburg , in M. Kalecki (ed.) Selected Essays on the Dynamics of... 

Rosa Luxemburg s The Accumulation of Capital critics try to bury the... 

Lenin, "The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government, March-April 1918, quoted in Carmen Claudin-Urondo, Lenin and the Cultural Revolution, trans. Brian Pearce (Sussex Harvester Press, 1977), p. 271. It is worth noting the brief naturalistic imagery associated with "public-meeting democracy here, as it is almost certainly borrowed from Rosa Luxemburg s work. 

Elzbieta Ettinger suggests that one likely source of Luxemburg s faith in the wisdom of ordinary workers was her love of the great Polish nationalist poet, Adam Mickiewicz, who celebrated the insight and creativity of ordinary Poles. See Rosa Luxemburg A Life (Boston Beacon Press, 1986), pp. 22-27. 

This way of analyzing working-class movements grew directly out of Luxemburg s research for her 1898 doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich, The Industrial Development of Poland, See J. P. Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg, vol. 1 (London Oxford University Press, 1966). 

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