Henryk Grossman and the recovery of Marxism
By: Rick Kuhn
Publisher: University of Illinois
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780252031076; 9780252073526
Subjects: Grossmann, Henryk, -- 1881-1950; Economists -- Germany -- Biography; Socialists -- Germany -- Biography; Economists -- Poland -- Biography; Socialists -- Poland -- Biography; Marxian economics -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography
Description: Rick Kuhn's Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism is the definitive study of the life and work of this renowned economist, activist, and intellectual. As a young man, Grossman joined the socialist movement and participated in Jewish workers' strikes and demonstrations, as well as in boycotts against employers and the Austro-Hungarian state. He moved to Vienna, but was driven back to Poland by the Austrian state's racist citizenship policies. A member of the illegal Polish Communist Party, Grossman was frequently arrested and jailed, finally leaving Poland for a post at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, which gave rise to the famous "Frankfurt School." Grossman published his best-known work in Frankfurt, including studies of Marx's method in Capital and theories of economic crisis that remain influential today. In tracing Grossman's experiences from Kraków to New York and offering a detailed account of his ideas, the biography provides an intimate account of key events in twentieth-century history, including the politicization of east European Jewry, the World Wars, the rise of Stalinism and Nazism, and the cold war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-310) and index
Table of contents: title: Growing up in Galicia; title: Leading the Jewish Social Democratic Party; title: Respectable careers; title: A communist academic; title: Marxist economics and the Institute for Social Research; title: Exile and political reassessments; title: From independent scholar to East German professor