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Responses to Marx's Capital: From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich Rubin is a collection of primary sources, translated from German and Russian, dealing with the reception of the economic works of Karl Marx from the First to the Third International.

Responses to Marx's Capital: From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich Rubin is a collection of primary sources, translated from German and Russian, dealing with the reception of the economic works of Karl Marx from the First to the Third International.

Responses to Marx's Capital: From Rudolf Hilferding to Isaak Illich Rubin is a collection of primary sources, translated from German and Russian, dealing with the reception of the economic works of Karl Marx from the First to the Third International.

In his criticism of Witnesses to Permanent Revolution Lars Lih argues that, except for Trotsky, all the other authors included in our volume were proponents of a bourgeois-democratic revolution in permanence. The problem with this idea is that it misses the whole point of the debate, which was precisely to what extent bourgeois (peasant) and socialist (proletarian) elements would be combined in the coming revolution. Philosophically, it displays a lack of dialectics in attempting to force the law of identity (either a socialist or a bourgeois democratic revolution) upon a historical event which was basically a combination of two diffferent historical phenomena: a jacquerie and a urban-based working-class revolution. Fil: Day, Richard B.. University Of Toronto; Canadá Fil: Gaido, Daniel Fernando. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudio sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Argentina

According to Comrade Preobrazhensky, the opening day of the Third All-Russian Congress of Soviets, will forever be indelibly imprinted in the memory of all participants. The All-Russian Congress of Soviets welcomed the Great October Revolution, promised support for Soviet power from the workers of the Old and New Worlds, and when they departed amid burning applause, they carried away in their spirit the inaudible music of deepest feeling for the brotherhood of peoples, which the bourgeois world did not and could not know. The Third All-Russian Congress of Soviets had gathered under good omens. The proletariat of Austria and Hungary have embarked on a path of revolutionary struggle. They were beginning to build, whereas the West had only begun to break things down. Preobrazhensky hopes that the time will soon come when the first congress of workers' and soldiers' deputies from the republics of Europe will gather in Petrograd. Keywords:bourgeois; Comrade Preobrazhensky; Great October Revolution; newspaper Pravda ; proletariat; revolution; Third All-Russian Congress of Soviets

This chapter discusses the articles on 'The Urals Counter-Revolution', Published in the Newspaper Pravda , by E. Preobrazhensky. At the call of the regional military commissariat, the workers of the Urals factories sent their best forces to the front against the Czechoslovaks. When almost the entire local organisation of Communists, numbering three hundred persons, had left Nev'yansk factory under arms, the automobile-company, which had evacuated to the factory from Luga and had always opposed the local soviet, began a counter- revolutionary uprising. In addition to Nev'yansk, the soviets were dispersed in Verkh-Neivinsk and also in Polevsk factory, where a gang of frontline soldiers even dug trenches at the approach of Soviet forces. Keywords:Communists; Czechoslovaks; Nev'yansk; Pravda ; Soviet forces; The Urals Counter-Revolution

This chapter presents Preobrazhensky's articles 45 and 46 Published in the Newspaper Pravda at the Beginning of June 1919. Six communes and 52 artels are registered with the district land-department. Of this number, 39 artel-communes have been subsidized by the land-department. Despite the fact that Karachev district is not, for the most part, a producing district, and that the majority of its parishes are poor, it is not mainly the poor peasants who are joining the commune, but the middle-peasantry. All of the communards, while not being party-members, are, nevertheless, the most committed supporters of Soviet power. They voluntarily give over all of their surpluses to food-organisations and conceal nothing. The chapter discusses the population and behaviour of communes. Keywords:commune; Karachev; Pravda ; Preobrazhensky; soviet power

This chapter talks about E.A. Preobrazhensky's Pamphlet Peasant-Russia and Socialism (Towards a Review of our agrarian programme). There are certain naive Socialist-Revolutionaries who suggest that our Party, by issuing the Decree on Land at the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, renounced any intention of putting forth its own agrarian programme and limited itself to supporting the S-R version of socialisation of the land. Not only the Socialist-Revolutionaries, but even many of our own party-comrades, do not clearly understand how, in the final analysis, matters will stand with our agrarian programme. Keywords:agrarian programme; congress; Russian Revolution; socialism; Socialist-Revolutionaries

This chapter presents the resolution of the first all-Bashkir conference of the RKP(B) on the tasks facing the Communists of Bashkiria in the period of Civil War. The conference of Communists of Soviet Bashkiria, meeting on the day after celebration of the second anniversary of the October Revolution, defines the international and domestic position that has emerged for the Soviet Republic, and its own tasks. The chapter lists the tasks including, the disintegration of capitalism in the West and the collapse of the bourgeoisie's productive forces are continuing and intensifying. On the basis of industrial collapse and hunger, a powerful strike-movement has begun in all the capitalist countries. A speedy destruction of Denikin is also imperative for Soviet Russia due to the enormous exhaustion of the country resulting from the prolonged Civil War that threatens to undermine all its vital forces. Keywords:Bashkiria; civil war; communists; October Revolution; Russia; Soviet Republic

Preobrazhensky was born in 1886 in the town of Bolkhov, in Orel province, into the family of a priest. In his childhood he was very religious. His loathing of material inequality arose from social sentiments that awakened in him at a very early age. When he entered the seventh class at the gymnasium, he could no longer remain in a state of undefined and formless revolutionism. He had to choose between the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Social Democrats. At that time the decisive influence in working out his world-view came from two works: The Communist Manifesto and The Development of Scientific Socialism by Engels. Pondering these two works for a long time, he decided that the Narodnik world-view was bankrupt and unscientific and that Marxism alone could show him the proper path. Keywords:political economy; Preobrazhensky; socialist-revolutionaries

This chapter presents a report submitted by E.A. Preobrazhensky concerning mobilisation of the population of the province for the struggle against Denikin. He was the Plenipotentiary of the VTsIK and responsible representative of the Central Committee of the RKP(B) in Orel Province. The report listed the reasons that made the trade-union mobilisation of thirty percent of Communist men impossible to accomplish. Keywords:E.A. Preobrazhensky; mobilisation

(1980). Rosa Luxemburg and the accumulation of capital. Critique: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 81-96.

(1982). Leon Trotsky on the problems of the smychka and forced collectivization. Critique: Vol. 13, Economics of the left opposition, pp. 55-68.

(1975). Preobrazhensky and the theory of the transition period. Soviet Studies: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 196-219.