ABSTRACT
He wrote this while discussing accumulation of capital, a subject perhaps least expected for such presumption. Luxemburg (1913 [1951]: 331-3) reviewed several other statements Marx made in this regard, notably in Volume 2, and she felt that no doubt was possible, ‘Marx wanted to demonstrate the process of accumulation in a society consisting exclusively of workers and capitalists, under the universal and exclusive domination of the capitalist mode of production.’ As a simplifying assumption, who could fault Marx, particularly when we know full well that he knew that the world was much more complex? Still, the presumption is problematic within the internal logic of his work.
