"Freedom Is Indivisible"

Rudolf Hilferding's Correspondence with Karl Kautsky, Leon Trotsky, and Paul Hertz, 1902-1938
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52737-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 270, 516 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 999 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

As the author of the ground-breaking work of Marxist political economy, Finance Capital, and a leader in the German Social Democratic Party, Rudolf Hilferding was a dominant intellectual and political figure in the history of European socialism from its halcyon days in the pre-1914 era until its collapse in the 1930s. This collection of his previously unpublished correspondence allows readers to trace the evolution of Hilferding’s thought as socialism’s fortunes declined and his own fate became precarious. It shows how, in the face of rising Stalinism and fascism, democracy remained at the core of his socialist vision.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smaldone, William T

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Part 1

1 Introduction to Part 1: Passing the Torch

2 Rudolf Hilferding’s Letters to Karl Kautsky, 1902–07

3 Rudolf Hilferding’s Letters to Karl Kautsky, 1915–18

4 Hilferding’s Letters to Karl Kautsky, 1924–33

5 Hilferding to Kautsky, 1933–38

Part 2

6 Introduction to Part 2: A Political Friendship?

7 Leon Trotsky’s Letters to Rudolf Hilferding, 1907–12

Part 3

8 Introduction to Part 3: “Freedom or Slavery”

9 Rudolf Hilferding’s Correspondence with Paul Hertz, 1933–38

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

William Smaldone, Ph.D. (1989), SUNY Binghamton, is the E. J. Whipple Professor of History at Willamette University. He has published monographs, translations, and many articles on European socialism, including of Rudolf Hilferding: The Tragedy of a German Social Democrat (Northern Illinois University Press,1998) and, with Mark E. Blum, Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity, 2 vols. (Brill, 2016/17).