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| Title: | Economic crisis and socialist revolution: Henryk Grossman’s Law of accumulation, its first critics and his responses |
| Authors: | Kuhn, Rick |
| Date Created: | 2004 |
| Abstract: | Henryk Grossman was the first person to systematically explore Marx’s explanation of capitalist crises in terms of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall and to place it in the context of the distinction between use and exchange value. His "The law of accumulation and breakdown of the capitalist system" remains an important reference point in the Marxist literature on economic crises. That literature has been plagued by distortions of Grossman’s position which derive from early hostile reviews of his book. These accused Grossman of a mechanical approach to the end of capitalism and of neglecting factors which boost profit rates. Grossman, in fact, contributed a complementary economic element to the recovery of Marxism undertaken by Lenin (particularly in the area of Marxist politics) and Lukács (in philosophy). In both published and unpublished work, Grossman also dealt with and even anticipated criticisms of his methodology and treatment of countertendencies to the tendency for the rate of profit to fall. Far from being mechanical, his economic analysis can still assist the struggle for working class self-emancipation. |
| Type: | preprint |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/40145 |
| Appears in Collections: | ePrints
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