Abstract
This article by Rosa Luxemburg provides a short introduction to the Agadir affair, involving a German attempt to challenge French rights in Morocco by sending the gunboat Panther to Agadir in July 1911. The action incited the Second Moroccan Crisis, which contributed to the tensions in Europe that led to the outbreak of the First World War and played a major role in sharpening the polemic between the centre and left wings of the SPD on the question of imperialism and disarmament. It also anticipates Rosa Luxemburg's later argument, developed at length in The Accumulation of Capital, that the driving force of imperialism was capitalism's need for third parties outside capitalist society (i.e. in the colonies) to realise surplus-value. The supreme representation of the German people, the Reichstag, is completely excluded from the most important and momentous events and decisions. Keywords:capitalism; Morocco; Rosa Luxemburg
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