Capitalism's Collapse
Henryk Grossmann's Marxism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10489154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rick Kuhn (Department of Political Science/Arts Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 174-192 |
| Publication date | 1995-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-8237 • E-ISSN: 1943-2801 |
| Publisher | Guilford Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/003682379505900203 |
| OpenAlex | W4413736882 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 16 |
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; identified how the mass of surplus value can act as a trigger for economic crises; and examined the effects of countervailing tendencies in slowing the fall in the rate of profit. Grossmann has been criticized as a theorist of automatic collapse. This criticism misunderstands the method of successive approximation of reality which Grossmann both identified in Marx's work and used in his own argument. In fact Gross-mann was committed to revolutionary working-class action to end capitalism and was, in this sense, an orthodox Leninist
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2006 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |