Responses to Marx's Capital: From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich Rubin is a collection of primary sources dealing with the reception of the economic works of Karl Marx from the First to the Third International. The documents, translated for the first time from German and Russian, range from the original reviews of the three volumes of Capital and the three volumes of Theories of Surplus Value to the debates between the Marxist economists and the bourgeois academic representatives of the theory of marginal utility and the German historical school. The volume closes with six essays by the prominent economist Isaak I. Rubin, including âEssays on Marx's Theory of Moneyâ and âThe Dialectical Development of Categories in Marxâs Economic Systemâ.
Richard B. Day, Ph. D. (1970), University of London, is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published extensively on Soviet economic and political history, including Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation (Cambridge University Press, 1973).
Daniel F. Gaido, Ph.D. (2000), University of Haifa (Israel), is a researcher at the National Research Council (Conicet), Argentina. He is the author of The Formative Period of American Capitalism (Routledge, 2006) and co-editor, together with Richard B. Day, of Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record (Brill, 2009).
"Responses to Marx spans an astonishing range of articles from many of the greatest Marxists to have written. Consistently brilliant throughout, the translations shine." - Bill Jefferies, in: Marx & Philosophy Review of Books (2018)
Introduction: The Early Reception of Marxâs Economic Works
Why Does Marx Matter?
âRichard B. Day
1 Karl Marxâs Point of View in his Political-Economic Critique: A Review of Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1872)
âIllarion Ignatâevich Kaufmann
2 The History of a Book [On the Fortieth Anniversary of the Publication of Capital, Vol. I] (1907)
âOtto Bauer
3 âThe Poverty of Philosophyâ and âCapitalâ (1886)
âKarl Kautsky
4 A Contribution to the Critique of Karl Marxâs Economic System (1894)
âWerner Sombart
5 Theories of Surplus Value (1905)
âHeinrich Cunow
6 Marxâs Critique of Ricardo (1906)
âGustav Eckstein
7 The Prehistory of Marxian Economics (1911â12)
âRudolf Hilferding
8 Theories of Surplus Value (1910)
âOtto Bauer
9 A Contribution to the Understanding of Marxâs Research Method (1910)
âHeinrich Cunow
10 On the History of the Theory of Value (1903)
âRudolf Hilferding
11 Karl Marxâs Formulation of the Problem of Theoretical Economics (1905)
âRudolf Hilferding
12 Back to Adam Smith! (1900)
âRosa Luxemburg
13 Werner Sombartâs Modern Capitalism (1903)
âRudolf Hilferding
14 The Psychological Tendency in Recent Political Economy (1892)
âConrad Schmidt
15 The Austrian School (1926)
âI.I. Rubin
16 Marxâs Teaching on Production and Consumption (1930)
âI.I. Rubin
17 Fundamental Features of Marxâs Theory of Value and How it Differs from Ricardoâs Theory (1924)
âI.I. Rubin
18 Towards a History of the Text of the First Chapter of Marxâs Capital (1929)
âI.I. Rubin
19 Essays on Marxâs Theory of Money (1926â8)
âI.I. Rubin
20 The Dialectical Development of Categories in Marxâs Economic System (1929)
âI.I. Rubin
Appendix: Pages from the Life and Creative Work of Economist I.I. Rubin (1992)
âLyudmila L. Vasina and Yakov G. Rokityansky
References Index
All interested in the history of socialism and Marxist political economy, particularly the reception of Marxâs economic works and the polemics between Marxist and bourgeois economists.