Alexander Parvus' legacy

[el_chavista]

How can you learn about Parvus if according to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parvus) "Parvus has left no documents after his death and all of his savings disappeared."

[Kotze]

I've never heard of that guy, but according to the German Wikipedia entry he published some articles on economics in Turkish in magazines such as Tanin and Türk Yurdu. That entry also lists a crapload of German writings by him (under "Werke" (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Parvus)).

[Zanthorus]

I've heard of Parvus because he was the original 'permanent revolution' theorist (In Russia anyway), and directly influenced Trotsky. Incidentally, Day and Gaido's book Witnesses to Permanent Revolution has Parvus' article What Was Accomplished on the Ninth of January as chapter six.

[PhoenixAsh]

Well...he wrote the Financial Manifesto and In the Russian Bastille...

[PhoenixAsh]

I've never heard of that guy, but according to the German Wikipedia entry he published some articles on economics in Turkish in magazines such as Tanin and Türk Yurdu. That entry also lists a crapload of German writings by him (under "Werke" (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Parvus)).

Amongst other things he helped get Lenin to Russia...and was helping start Iskra

[Q]

I'd like to point you to the Historical Materialism Book Series, 21: Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record (http://brill.nl/product_id22166).


The theory of Permanent Revolution has been associated with Leon Trotsky for more than a century since the first Russian Revolution in 1905. Trotsky was the most brilliant proponent of Permanent Revolution but by no means its sole author. The documents in this volume, most of them translated into English for the first time, demonstrate that Trotsky was one of several participants in a debate from 1903-7 that involved numerous leading figures of Russian and European Marxism, including Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring, Parvus and David Ryazanov.

This volume reassembles that debate, assesses it with reference to Marx and Engels, and provides new evidence for interpreting the formative years of Russian revolutionary Marxism.

If you cannot pay the rather ridiculous pricetag, there is Google books (http://books.google.com/books?id=pV5k-TvbSwQC&printsec=frontcover&hl=nl&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false).

A mere look at the content table should get you excited, if you're interested in the subject.

[el_chavista]

Thanks to all. Man! There is no scarcity of Marxist gurus in RevLeft :lol: