The contributions of Rosa Luxemburg to the imperialism debate
Abstract
The controversy about the interpretation of imperialism as politics or as an historical phase of capitalism is a key element in the “classic” and “contemporary” debates regarding imperialism. Throughout a hundred years of historiography, the line of thought that considers Rosa Luxemburg more coherent with the preferential politics of capital, instead of an specific phase of capitalism, has prevailed. This article aims to present how the idea of imperialism is discussed in the work of Rosa Luxemburg, with a view to demonstrate that the author’s analysis is not much conclusive. In her work it is also possible to identify considerations about imperialism as politics needed by the historical phase of capitalism, in the beginning of the twentieth century. In this sense, we hope to contribute with a historiography that still has some points to be clarified.
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