Rudolf Hilferding
Rudolf Hilferding (10 August 1877 – 11 February 1941) was an Austrian-born physician, Marxist economist, and politician for the German Social Democratic Party. He contributed to Die Neue Zeit and in 1904 wrote his classic Response to Böhm-Bawerk's Criticism of Marx, dissolving criticisms of Marx's Capital put forward in the book Karl Marx and the Close of His System by Eugen Böhm von Bawerk. Hilferding was author of the book Finance Capital, an analysis of then-current capitalist development. He took a pacifist position during that war, which led him to the Independent Social Democrats (USPD), later to returning to the Social Democratic Party and become finance minister in the Stresemann cabinet in 1923 and the Mueller cabinet, 1928–30. He fled to France when the Nazis came to power, but the Petain regime turned him over to the Gestapo in 1940, and he died in a German prison.
Work
Response to Böhm-Bawerk
Ideas
Theory of finance capital
Analysis of the USSR
References
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