Henryk Grossman Works, Volume 1

This volume includes essential texts—many available here in English for the first time; some available for the first time in any language—by the influential revolutionary Marxist Henryk Grossman. This collection pulls from monographs, articles, essays, letters, and manuscript material to assemble Grossman's most important contributions on economic theory. The first in four volumes of Grossman's works, this collection provides the basis for a deeper understanding of his contribution to Marxist economic theory and the critique of bourgeois economics. Rick Kuhn's essential introduction explains the contexts in which the pieces were written and establishes their contemporary relevance.

Henryk Grossman (1881–1950) was the preeminent Marxist economist of the twentieth century. He was the founding theoretician and secretary of the Jewish Socialist Party of Galicia; a professor at the Free University of Poland; then, as a member of the Institute for Social Research, at the University of Frankfurt; and later at the University of Leipzig.

Dr Rick Kuhn is a member of Socialist Alternative in Australia. In addition to numerous other publications, he wrote the Deutscher Prize winning biography Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism, co-authored Labor's Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class and edited Class and Struggle in Australia.

Publication date: March 24, 2020

Introduction

Rick Kuhn

1 The Fortieth Anniversary of Capital

2 The Theory of Economic Crisis

3. The Economic System of Karl Marx (on the Fortieth Anniversary of His Death)
4. Simonde de Sismondi and His Economic Theories (a New Interpretation of His Thought)
5. A New Theory of Imperialism and the Social Revolution
6. Review of Othmar Spann, The Principal Theories of Economics
7. Review of Maurice Bourguin, Socialist Systems and Economic Evolution
8. The Change in the Original Plan for Marx's Capital and Its Causes
9. Notes for "Response to Criticisms of the Principle Work"
10. Letters to Frieda and Paul Mattick
11. Gold Production in the Reproduction Schema of Marx and Rosa Luxemburg
12. The Value-Price Transformation in Marx and the Problem of Crisis
13. Fifty Years of Struggle over Marxism 1883-1932
14. Letters to Leo Löwenthal
15. Letters to Max Horkheimer
16. Sismondi, Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de (1773-1842)
17. Review of Élie Halévy, Sismondi
18. Review of Robert Bordaz, Marx's Law of Capitals in Light of Contemporary Events
19. Contributions to a Seminar Series on Monopoly Capitalism
20. Review of G.N. Clark, Science and Social Welfare in the Age of Newton, and George Sarton, The History of Science and the New Humanism
21. Review of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Civil War in the United States
22. Review of F. Grandeau, The Theory of Crises
23. Review of Cleona Lewis, America's Stake in International Investments
24. Review of Jürgen Kuczynski, Hunger and Work
25. Review of L.P. Ayres, Turning Points in Business Cycles
26. Marx, Classical Political Economy and the Problem of Dynamics
27. Review of Josef A. Schumpeter, Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process
28. Review of Solomon Fabricant, The Output of Manufacturing Industries 1899-1937
29. Review of Lynn Thorndike, A History of magic and Experimental Sciences
30. The Evolutionist Revolt again Classical Economics
31. William Playfair, the Earliest Theorist of Capitalist Development
32. Letters to Bill Blake and Christina Stead
33. Letters to Walter Braeuer

References

Index and Abbreviations