Isaak Illich Rubin

Isaac Ilyich Rubin ( born June 12, 1886 in Daugavpils, Latvia today, † November 27, 1937 in Aktobe, Kazakhstan today ) was a Russian economist and is considered the most important theorist of his time on the field of Marx's theory of value. His major work, Studies on Marx 's theory of value appeared in 1924. During the Stalinist purges, he was executed in 1937.

  • 4.1 Biography
  • 4.2 Primary texts
  • 4.3 bibliographies

Life

Rubin attended as a child, a cheder and continued his schooling in Vitebsk (now Belarus ) away. Since 1904, member of the General Jewish Labour Bund, Rubin joined in 1905 at the Russian revolutionary movement. After the failed revolution, he wrote still 1905 at the University of St. Petersburg and graduated in 1910 his studies in jurisprudence from. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer in 1912 in Moscow.

After the February Revolution of 1917, Rubin published articles and pamphlets on intensified labor and social security law as well as general economic issues. He became friends with the head of the Marx-Engels Institute David Ryazanov, and there could quickly develop a reputation as a leading researcher Marx. Due to his reputation, he was appointed in 1921 as Professor of Political Economy at the University of Moscow.

After the publication of his main work, the studies on Marx 's theory of value in 1928, however, intensified the criticism of his positions. He was accused of falsification of Marx's economic theory, an idealist and metaphysical approach to economic categories as well as the separation of form and content. He became the target of a campaign that culminated in a published in Pravda in November 1930 indictment, was accused in the ruby ​​to be a member of a Menshevik Kulak conspiracy.

Between 1989 and 1991, Rubin was posthumously acquitted and rehabilitated as part of the perestroika of all charges.

Publications (selection )

Main work

  • Isaac Ilyich Rubin: Studies on Marx 's theory of value. With an introduction and translated by Annette Neusüss - Fögen according to the unpublished American translation of the third Russian edition, Moscow / Leningrad 1928. Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-434-30141-0.

Other Publications

  • I [ Saak ] I [ ljitsch ] Rubin, SA Bessonov include: dialectics of categories. Debate in the USSR ( 1927-29 ). VSA, Berlin, 1975, DNB 750,363,835th
  • The Marxian theory of commodity fetishism. In: Devi Dumbadze, Ingo Elbe et al (Eds.): Criticism of political philosophy. Munster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89691-789-8. ( German original translation of the first chapter of ' Studies on Marx 's theory of value ' ) online pdf
  • Evidence of monetary theory. In: Contributions to the Marx-Engels research. New Series Special Volume 4 Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-88619-699-9, pp. 9-118.
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