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While extremely influential in his own time, Rudolf Hilferding¿s letters will primarily be of interest to specialists in the fields of European History and students of the Socialist movement.
List of contents
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
About the author
William Smaldone is the E. J. Whipple Professor of History at Willamette University. He has published monographs, translations, and many articles on European socialism, including Rudolf Hilferding: The Tragedy of a German Social Democrat and, with Mark E. Blum, Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity, 2 vols.
Summary
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This collection of his previously unpublished correspondence with key figures from the socialist movement allows readers to trace the evolution of Hilferding's thought as socialism's fortunes declined and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.
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