Rudolf Hilferding, 1877-1941.
Autro-Marxist economist.
Popularizer and propounder of the "economic" reading of Karl Marx, Hilferding was one of the leading Marxian theorists of his day, identified with the "Austro-Marxian" group. He was the main
responder (1904) to the challenge to Marx by fellow Viennese, Eugen von Böhm-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 (1910).
Hilferding served with Kautsky in the German Socialization
Committee in 1918. He was a member of parliament for the Social Democratic Party in
Germany and also served as the German Minister of Finance in 1923 and 1928-9. Hilferding
was exiled to France in the 1930s and then arrested by the Nazis on Vichy soil in 1940.
His exact fate remains unknown, but easy to conjecture.
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Major works of Rudolf Hilferding
- "Böhm-Bawerks Marx-Kritik", 1904, Marx-Studien
p.1 [offpr]
[English trans. "Bohm-Bawerk's Criticism of Marx"]. [mia]
- "Du Parti Socialiste Autrichien", 1904, Le Mouvement socialiste
p.336
- (Editor) Marxstudien: Blätter fü Theorie und Politik des wissenschaftlichen
Sozialismus v.1,, with M Adler,1904 [bk]
- "Zur Problemstellung der theoretischen Okonomie bei Karl Marx", 1904-05,
Neue Zeit,
p.101
- "Die Konjuktur", 1907, Neue Zeit
- Das Finanzkapital. Eine Studie über die jüngste Entwicklung des
Kapitalismus, 1910 [av],
[English 1981 trans Finance Capital: A study of the latest phase of
capitalist development,
mia].
- "Zwischen den Entscheidungen". 1933, Die Gesellschaft [English
trans. "Between Decisions",
mia]
- "State Capitalism or Totalitarian State Economy", 1947, Monthly
Review [mia]
- "Das historische Problem,", 1954, Zeitschrift fur Politik
[English trans: "The Historical Problem"]
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Resources on Hilferding
- Rudolf Hilderding
Archive at Marxists.org
- "Review of Hilferding's Bohm-Bawerk", 1904-05, Neue Zeit,
p.199
- "Neuere Shriften von und Über Karl Marx", by Conrad Schmidt, 1905,
AfSS, (v.20)
p.386 (review of Mehring, Adler & Hilferding, Rosenberg)
- Index of articles in Die Neue Zeit, 1903-07
idx
- “Parliamentarianism and the General Strike,” 1905, The Social
Democrat, [mrx]
- Bibliography on Hilferding by Juan Carlos Frias, [pdf]
- T. Hozumi's essay on The Economic
Thought of German Social Democracy in the Weimar Republic, 1996.
-
Hilderding at Britannica
- Wikipedia
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