Author: Hilferding, Rudolf [1877- 1941] ; editor :
Title: Die Gesellschaft : internationale Revue für Sozialismus und Politik : [2. Jahrgang] 1925 : Band I & II
Description: Berlin, J.H.W. Dietz Nachf. 1925. Cloth. 24x15cm, [1184] pages. TWO VOLUMES. Weighs 2 kilos. The first volume is in original cloth, the second volume in binder's blind cloth.. Binding spotted and stained. Foxed. Good. ¶ A few pencilled underlinings. The second volume is undated, but includes Julius Martow "Marx und der Staat" on pages 305 - 322. Each volume contains 6 issues, each with separate title-pages. The leading monthly German Socialist theoretical periodical, begun in 1924, ceased publication in 1933. Contributors include Kautsky, Viktor Tschernow ['Der Fall Trotzki']; Vladimir Voytinsky, arl Landauer ['Zum Niedergang der Faschismus']; etc. ["Rudolf Hilferding was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, leading socialist theorist, politician and chief theoretician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic. He is almost universally recognized as the SPD's foremost theoretician of his century...After becoming a leading journalist for the SPD,[3] he participated in the November Revolution in Germany and was Finance Minister of Germany in 1923 and from 1928 to 1929. In 1933 he fled into exile, living in Zurich and then Paris, where he died in custody of the Gestapo in 1941. Hilferding was a proponent of the 'economic' reading of Karl Marx identifying with the "Austro-Marxian" group. He was the first to put forward the theory of organized capitalism. He was the main defender of Marxism from critiques by Austrian School economist and fellow Vienna resident Eugen Boehm von Bawerk. Hilferding also participated in the ' Crises Debate' – disputing Marx's theory of the instability and eventual breakdown of capitalism on the basis that the concentration of capital is actually stabilizing..." - wikipedia].

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