Selected Political and Economic Writings

From the Hungarian Revolution to Orthodox Economic Theory in the USSR
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-22660-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 225, 1180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1732 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

Born in 1879, Eugen Varga would become the most prominent Marxist economist in the Soviet Union – ‘Stalin’s economist’. This volume contains a wide and representative selection of his works, dating from his entry into the Hungarian Communist Party in 1919 through to his criticisms of John Maynard Keynes in the 1950s. It includes the entire text of his Economic Problems of the Proletarian Dictatorship, according to Lenin probably the best work on the collapse of the revolutionary government in Hungary. A detailed critical introduction by Varga’s biographer, André Mommen, supplies valuable background detail on the circumstances of Varga’s work, contextualising it in relation to political events and the development of orthodox economic theory in the USSR.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Varga, Eugen

Mommen, André

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mommen, André

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About translations, transliteration and references

List of acronyms

Preface

Jeno Varga: An Introduction to His Life and Works

by André Mommen

PART ONE

THE HUNGARIAN COUNCILS’ REPUBLIC (1919)

1. Political-Economic Problems of the Proletarian Dictatorship

PART TWO

THE COMINTERN YEARS (1920–38)

2. The International Situation. A Study of Capitalism in Collapse (presented to the Moscow Congress, 1921) by Leon Trotsky and Prof. E. Varga

3. Economic Basis of Imperialism in the US of North America

4. The Economic Crisis of Germany

5. The Crisis of the Capitalist World Economy

6. The Situation of the World Economy and the Evolution of the World Economic Policy During the Last Three Years

7. The Process of Capitalist Decline (Report to the Fourth Congress of the Communist International)

8. The Decline of Capitalism

9. Introduction to: Materials on the Situation of the Peasant Movement in the Most Important Countries

10. The Decline of Capitalism: The Economics of a Period of the Decline of Capitalism After Stabilisation

11. Accumulation and Breakdown of Capitalism

12. The Great Crisis and its Political Consequences: Economics and Politics 1928–34

PART THREE

THE GENERAL CRISIS OF CAPITALISM (1939–64)

13. The Imperialist Struggle for a New Redivision of the World

14. Changes in Capitalism During the War

15. Plans for Currency Stabilisation

16. World Currency Headache

17. Toward a New Crash?

18. The General Crisis of Capitalism (Features of the Home and Foreign Policy of the Capitalist Countries During the Epoch of the General Crisis of Capitalism)

19. Democracy of a New Type

20. Anglo-American Rivalry and Partnership: A Marxist View

21. The Increased Role of the State in the Economy of the Capitalist Countries

22. The Impoverishment Tendencies in the War Economy of the Capitalist Countries

23. Concentration and Centralisation of Production and Capital During the War

24. Economic Regulation and Absence of Planning in the Capitalist Countries During the War

25. Towards an Economic Crisis in the USA

26. Crisis Hits the USA

27. Problems of the Postwar Industrial Cycle and the New Crisis of Overproduction

28. The Problem of Inter-Imperialist Contradictions and War

29. Changes in the Reproduction Cycle following the Second World War

30. Problems of State-Monopoly Capitalism

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eugen Varga (1879-1964) was one of the most prominent writers on economic affairs in the USSR.

André Mommen (1945–2017) was a Belgian political economist, editor and author. He authored many books and essays, including a biography of Varga, Stalin’s Economist (Routledge, 2011).