Rick Kuhn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rick Kuhn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rick |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuhn |
| SIGNATURE | KUHN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction to Henryk Grossman’s ‘A New Theory of Imperialism and the Social Revolution’
Characterisations of Henryk Grossman as a theorist of capitalism’s automatic collapse and political passivity are false. Even before the publication of his principal work, Grossman had linked his recovery of Marx’s account of capitalism’s tendency to break down to his own, interventionist, Leninist politics. This is apparent in his substantial critique of Fritz Sternberg’s influential 1926 book, Imperialism . Grossman’s article ( DOI 10.1163/1569…
Introduction to Henryk Grossman, ‘The Value-Price Transformation in Marx and the Problem of Crisis’
Whereas most previous and later discussions of Marx’s transformation of values into prices of production have focused on his mathematical procedure, Henryk Grossman addressed the logic of its place in the structure of Capital . On this basis he criticised underconsumptionist and disproportionality theorists of economic crises for inappropriately basing their accounts on the level of analysis of the value schemas in the second volume of Capital . …
Henryk Grossman and Critical Theory
In 1943, Henryk Grossman sent a draft of the study, eventually published in two parts as ‘The Evolutionist Revolt against Classical Economics’, to Max Horkheimer for comment. His very hostile response, Grossman’s drafts and the published study cast light not only on the changing relationship between Grossman and Horkheimer but also on the distance between Grossman’s classical Marxism and nascent mature Critical Theory. Grossman’s study identified…
Introduction to 'The Change in the Original Plan for Marx's Capital and Its Causes
In his essay, Henryk Grossman made a powerful case for the continued relevance of Marxist economics. He argued that Capital is a fundamentally coherent whole, structured by Marx's method of moving systematically from more abstract to more concrete levels of analysis. Despite considerable subsequent debate and research, Grossman's account remains the outstanding contribution to our understanding of this aspect of Marx's principal work
Labor's Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class
Once widely regarded as the workers greatest hope for a better world, the ALP today would rather project itself as a responsible manager of Australian capitalism. Labor's Conflict provides an insightful account of the transformations in the Party's policies, performance and structures since its formation. Seasoned political analysts, Tom Bramble and Rick Kuhn offer an incisive appraisal of the Party's successes and failures, betrayals and elector…
Economic Crisis, Henryk Grossman and the Responsibility of Socialists
Henryk Grossman's discussion of economic crises was designed to complement his Leninist understanding of politics. For Grossman, as for Marx, the fundamental contradiction of capitalist production is between the unlimited scope for expanding the output of use-values and restrictions imposed by the framework of producing profits. The increasing weight of capitalists' outlays on dead compared to living labour, which is the only source of new value,…
Continuity or Discontinuity in the Recent History of the Australian Labor Party
Recent characterisations of the Australian Labor Party as a ‘cartel party’ \nsuggest that there was, after the 1970s, a fundamental discontinuity in \nLabor’s history. We assess this contention not only in terms of the ALP’s \npolicies but also the mechanisms which link it with different classes and \nsocial groups: Labor’s electoral support, membership and local branches, \nthe backgrounds of the Party’s parliamentarians and leaders, the role of…
The Great Australian Goldrush and Eureka Stockade
Continuing the ‘excavation’ of Marx's work
Hal Draper and E. Haberkern, Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, vol. V: War & Revolution (Alameda and New York: Center for Socialist History and Monthly Review Press, 2005), 298 pp., US$19.99, ISBN
Introduction to Henryk Grossman's Critique of Franz Borkenau and Max Weber
Henryk Grossman's previously unpublished essay 'The Beginnings of Capitalism and the New Mass Morality' offers a Marxist critique of Max Weber's arguments, as expressed by Franz Borkenau, about Calvinism’s role in the emergence of capitalism. This article places Grossman's essay in the context of his political and intellectual background, the immediate circumstances of his response to Borkenau's work and its place in the early literature on Weber…
Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism
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…
Class and Struggle in Australia
The Threat of Fascism in Austria
For the first time since the Second World War, the extreme right is a major component in a national European government. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has half of the posts and the Deputy Chancellorship in its coalition with the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), sworn in on February 4, 2000. The only consistent features of FPÖ politics since 1986 have been racism and the determination of Jörg Haider, its most prominent figure, to t…
Unions in a Contrary World: The Future of Australian Trade Unionism
Rural Reaction and War on the Waterfront in Australia
It wasn't the usual forest fires or cuddly marsupials that put Australia briefly into the news around the world in mid 1998. Two events, unlike the bushfires or koala capers, illustrated the increasing tensions in Australian politics.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Grossmann on Class Struggle, beyond Exegesis: A Response
The Australian Left, Nationalism and the Vietnam War
The pervasive nationalism of Australian politics informed most explanations of why Australia was involved in the Vietnam war offered by the contemporary Left. The most prominent opponent of the war
The Pattern ofthe Australian Labor Party's Foreign Policy Since 1900
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Capitalism's Collapse: Henryk Grossmann's Marxism
Henryk Grossmann regarded an account of capitalism's tendency to breakdown as an essential element of revolutionary Marxist theory and of the case against reformism. In 1929, Grossmann systematically elaborated Marx's argument that the tendency to breakdown is inherent in the capitalist production process itself, in the form of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall. He demonstrated how this operates, using Otto Bauer's reproduction scheme; …
Fascism in Germany today: A review of recent literature on the German Far Right
(1993). Fascism in Germany today. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 131-151
The Limits of Social Democratic Economic Policy in Australia
In 1993 the Australian Labor Party won an historic fifth successive general election. Here, Kuhn assesses the record of Labor in power. He finds that it has exploited its special relationship with the working class in order to push through a familiar policy of economic restructuring in the interests of capital. However, he also suggests that the limits to this social democratic strategy may now be approaching
Labour's Utopias: Bolshevism, Fabianism, Social Democracy
Australian politics
David Black (ed.), The House on the Hill: A History of the Parliament of Western Australia 1832–1990 (Perth: Parliament of Western Australia, 1991) pp.558. $n.p. ISBN 0 7309 3983 9. D.H. Borchardt, Commissions of Inquiry in Australia: A Brief Surrey (Melbourne: La Trobe University Press, 1991) pp.107. $24.95 ISBN 1 86324 011X. John Connell and Richard Howitt (eds), Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia (Sydney: Sydney University Press in a…
A comment on Maddox and Battin, Johnson, and manning
Lenin on the ALP: The Career of 600 Words1
Lenin’s 600 word article of 1913, ‘In Australia’, included a very brief outline of the nature of Australian capitalism and the Australian Labor Party (ALP)2. It came to be a touchstone for the Communist Party of Australia’s (CPA’s) analyses of these questions. For a period, during the 1940s and early 1950s, the article was reinterpreted, sometimes to reach a diametrically opposed conclusion, each time the Party’s line changed. ‘In Australia’ beca…
Continuity or Discontinuity in the Recent History of the Australian Labor Party
Recent characterisations of the Australian Labor Party as a ‘cartel party’ \nsuggest that there was, after the 1970s, a fundamental discontinuity in \nLabor’s history. We assess this contention not only in terms of the ALP’s \npolicies but also the mechanisms which link it with different classes and \nsocial groups: Labor’s electoral support, membership and local branches, \nthe backgrounds of the Party’s parliamentarians and leaders, the role of…
The Australian Left, Nationalism and the Vietnam War
The pervasive nationalism of Australian politics informed most explanations of why Australia was involved in the Vietnam war offered by the contemporary Left. The most prominent opponent of the war
A comment on Maddox and Battin, Johnson, and manning
What a labor government is
Carol Johnson The Labor Legacy: Curtin. Chifley. Whitlam. IJawke, Sydney. Allen and Unwin, 1989, pp. 143. $14.95 (paper) Graham Maddox The Hawke Government and Labor Tradition, Ringwood, Penguin, 1989, pp.232. $14.99 (paper)
Introduction to 'The Change in the Original Plan for Marx's Capital and Its Causes
In his essay, Henryk Grossman made a powerful case for the continued relevance of Marxist economics. He argued that Capital is a fundamentally coherent whole, structured by Marx's method of moving systematically from more abstract to more concrete levels of analysis. Despite considerable subsequent debate and research, Grossman's account remains the outstanding contribution to our understanding of this aspect of Marx's principal work
Economic Crisis, Henryk Grossman and the Responsibility of Socialists
Henryk Grossman's discussion of economic crises was designed to complement his Leninist understanding of politics. For Grossman, as for Marx, the fundamental contradiction of capitalist production is between the unlimited scope for expanding the output of use-values and restrictions imposed by the framework of producing profits. The increasing weight of capitalists' outlays on dead compared to living labour, which is the only source of new value,…
Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism
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…
The Threat of Fascism in Austria
For the first time since the Second World War, the extreme right is a major component in a national European government. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has half of the posts and the Deputy Chancellorship in its coalition with the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), sworn in on February 4, 2000. The only consistent features of FPÖ politics since 1986 have been racism and the determination of Jörg Haider, its most prominent figure, to t…
From one industry strategy to the next
ACTU/TDC Mission to Western Europe, Australia Reconstructed, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987, pp.xiv+221. $29.95 (paper) K. Anderson and R. Garnaut, Australian Protectionism: Extent, Causes and Effects, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1987, pp.160. $16.95 (paper) P. Ewer, W. Higgins and A. Stevens, Unions and the Future of Australian Manufacturing, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1987, pp. 189. $ 15.95 (paper) R. Robison, K. Hewison an…
Industry policy and the working class
Labor Movement Economic Thought in the 1930s: Underconsumptionism and Keynesiam Economics
From one industry strategy to the next
ACTU/TDC Mission to Western Europe, Australia Reconstructed, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987, pp.xiv+221. $29.95 (paper) K. Anderson and R. Garnaut, Australian Protectionism: Extent, Causes and Effects, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1987, pp.160. $16.95 (paper) P. Ewer, W. Higgins and A. Stevens, Unions and the Future of Australian Manufacturing, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1987, pp. 189. $ 15.95 (paper) R. Robison, K. Hewison an…
Lenin on the ALP: The Career of 600 Words1
Lenin’s 600 word article of 1913, ‘In Australia’, included a very brief outline of the nature of Australian capitalism and the Australian Labor Party (ALP)2. It came to be a touchstone for the Communist Party of Australia’s (CPA’s) analyses of these questions. For a period, during the 1940s and early 1950s, the article was reinterpreted, sometimes to reach a diametrically opposed conclusion, each time the Party’s line changed. ‘In Australia’ beca…
What a labor government is
Carol Johnson The Labor Legacy: Curtin. Chifley. Whitlam. IJawke, Sydney. Allen and Unwin, 1989, pp. 143. $14.95 (paper) Graham Maddox The Hawke Government and Labor Tradition, Ringwood, Penguin, 1989, pp.232. $14.99 (paper)
Australian politics
David Black (ed.), The House on the Hill: A History of the Parliament of Western Australia 1832–1990 (Perth: Parliament of Western Australia, 1991) pp.558. $n.p. ISBN 0 7309 3983 9. D.H. Borchardt, Commissions of Inquiry in Australia: A Brief Surrey (Melbourne: La Trobe University Press, 1991) pp.107. $24.95 ISBN 1 86324 011X. John Connell and Richard Howitt (eds), Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia (Sydney: Sydney University Press in a…
A comment on Maddox and Battin, Johnson, and manning
Fascism in Germany today: A review of recent literature on the German Far Right
(1993). Fascism in Germany today. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 131-151
The Limits of Social Democratic Economic Policy in Australia
In 1993 the Australian Labor Party won an historic fifth successive general election. Here, Kuhn assesses the record of Labor in power. He finds that it has exploited its special relationship with the working class in order to push through a familiar policy of economic restructuring in the interests of capital. However, he also suggests that the limits to this social democratic strategy may now be approaching
Labour's Utopias: Bolshevism, Fabianism, Social Democracy
Capitalism's Collapse: Henryk Grossmann's Marxism
Henryk Grossmann regarded an account of capitalism's tendency to breakdown as an essential element of revolutionary Marxist theory and of the case against reformism. In 1929, Grossmann systematically elaborated Marx's argument that the tendency to breakdown is inherent in the capitalist production process itself, in the form of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall. He demonstrated how this operates, using Otto Bauer's reproduction scheme; …
The Pattern ofthe Australian Labor Party's Foreign Policy Since 1900
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Grossmann on Class Struggle, beyond Exegesis: A Response
The Australian Left, Nationalism and the Vietnam War
The pervasive nationalism of Australian politics informed most explanations of why Australia was involved in the Vietnam war offered by the contemporary Left. The most prominent opponent of the war
Rural Reaction and War on the Waterfront in Australia
It wasn't the usual forest fires or cuddly marsupials that put Australia briefly into the news around the world in mid 1998. Two events, unlike the bushfires or koala capers, illustrated the increasing tensions in Australian politics.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Unions in a Contrary World: The Future of Australian Trade Unionism
The Threat of Fascism in Austria
For the first time since the Second World War, the extreme right is a major component in a national European government. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has half of the posts and the Deputy Chancellorship in its coalition with the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), sworn in on February 4, 2000. The only consistent features of FPÖ politics since 1986 have been racism and the determination of Jörg Haider, its most prominent figure, to t…
Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism
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…
Class and Struggle in Australia
Continuing the ‘excavation’ of Marx's work
Hal Draper and E. Haberkern, Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, vol. V: War & Revolution (Alameda and New York: Center for Socialist History and Monthly Review Press, 2005), 298 pp., US$19.99, ISBN
Introduction to Henryk Grossman's Critique of Franz Borkenau and Max Weber
Henryk Grossman's previously unpublished essay 'The Beginnings of Capitalism and the New Mass Morality' offers a Marxist critique of Max Weber's arguments, as expressed by Franz Borkenau, about Calvinism’s role in the emergence of capitalism. This article places Grossman's essay in the context of his political and intellectual background, the immediate circumstances of his response to Borkenau's work and its place in the early literature on Weber…
The Great Australian Goldrush and Eureka Stockade
Economic Crisis, Henryk Grossman and the Responsibility of Socialists
Henryk Grossman's discussion of economic crises was designed to complement his Leninist understanding of politics. For Grossman, as for Marx, the fundamental contradiction of capitalist production is between the unlimited scope for expanding the output of use-values and restrictions imposed by the framework of producing profits. The increasing weight of capitalists' outlays on dead compared to living labour, which is the only source of new value,…
Continuity or Discontinuity in the Recent History of the Australian Labor Party
Recent characterisations of the Australian Labor Party as a ‘cartel party’ \nsuggest that there was, after the 1970s, a fundamental discontinuity in \nLabor’s history. We assess this contention not only in terms of the ALP’s \npolicies but also the mechanisms which link it with different classes and \nsocial groups: Labor’s electoral support, membership and local branches, \nthe backgrounds of the Party’s parliamentarians and leaders, the role of…
Labor's Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class
Once widely regarded as the workers greatest hope for a better world, the ALP today would rather project itself as a responsible manager of Australian capitalism. Labor's Conflict provides an insightful account of the transformations in the Party's policies, performance and structures since its formation. Seasoned political analysts, Tom Bramble and Rick Kuhn offer an incisive appraisal of the Party's successes and failures, betrayals and elector…
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