Rick Kuhn

Publications connected with the “Bund”

Books

  • Henryk Grossman and the recovery of Marxism, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago 2007.

Articles

  • ‘Introduction to Henryk Grossman’s critique of Franz Borkenau and Max Weber’ Journal of classical sociology 6 (2) July 2006 pp. 195-200.
  • ‘Henryk Grossman and the recovery of Marxism’ Historical materialism 13 (3) 2005 pp. 57-100. preprint version
  • ‘Anzelm Mosler and the ‘Galician Bund’: revolutionary class politics and organisational structures’ Melbourne chronicle 69, 2002 pp. 27-30.
  • ‘The Jewish Social Democratic Party of Galicia and the Bund’, in Jack Jacobs (ed.) Jewish politics in Eastern Europe: the Bund at 100 Palgrave/New York University Press, London/New York 2001 pp. 133-154.
  • ‘Henryk Grossman, a Marxist activist and theorist: on the 50th anniversary of his death’ in Paul Zarembka and Susanne Soederberg (eds) Value, capitalist dynamics, and money: Research in Political Economy 18, Elsevir Science, New York 2000 pp. 111-170.
  • ‘Żydowska Partia Socjalno-Demokratyczna Galicji a Bund’ in Feliks Tych and Jürgen Hensl: Bund 100 lat historii: 1897-1997 Fundacja im. Ericha Brosta przy Fundacji im Friedricha Erberta, Żydowski Instytut Historicyczny, Instytut Badawczo-Naukowy, Warsaw 2000 pp. 145-170.
  • ‘Capital development’ Socialist review 245 October 2000 pp. 22-23.
  • ‘From Krakow to Canberra: finding out about Henryk Grossmann’ Melbourne chronicle 68, 1999 pp. 18-19.
  • ‘Organising Yiddish speaking workers in pre World War I Galicia: the Jewish Social Democratic Party’ in Leonard Greenspoon (ed.) Yiddish language & culture: then & now Creighton University Press, Omaha 1998 pp. 37-63.
  • ‘Henryk Grossman in Galicia’ in Antoni Komendera, Roman Padola and Michal Sliwa (eds) O czlowieku i wartosciach. Ksiega pamiatkowa poswiecona 35-leciu pracy naukowej i 40-leciu pracy nauczycielskiej Profesora Jana Szmyda (The Man and Values: festschrift dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the start of Professor Jan Szmyd’s research and the 40th anniversary of his teaching career) Wydawnictwo Naukowe WSP, Krakow, 1997 pp. 318-334.
  • ‘The Galician Bund’ Unzer Gedank September 1997 pp. 4-5.

Reviews

  • ‘Bundism in Australia: a review of M. Ajzenbud 60 years of ‘Bund’ in Melbourne: 1928-1988’ Melbourne chronicle 67 1998 pp. 5-6.

Other publications

Books

  • Class and struggle in Australia Pearson, Sydney 2005, edited.
  • Civics, democracy and politics Australian Curriculum Studies Association, Canberra 1999, edited.
  • Class and class conflict in Australia Longman, Melbourne 1996, edited with Tom O’Lincoln.
  • Militancy uprooted: labour movement economics 1974-1986, Socialist Action, Melbourne December 1986.

Articles

  • ‘Henryk Grossman on capitalist expansion and imperialism’ International socialist review 56, November-December 2007 pp. 57-66, fulltext.
  • ‘PC Australia e Nuova Zelanda’ in Silvo Pons and Robert Service Dizionario del comunismo. Volume secondo. M-Z Einaudi, Torino 2007.
  • Pratyush Chandra ‘On Henryk Grossman, a revolutionary marxist - an interview with Rick Kuhn’ Radical notes 9 April 2007, fulltext.
  • ‘Class’ in Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (eds) The Oxford companion to Australian politics Oxford University Press, Melbourne 2007 pp. 106-108.
  • ‘Marxism’ in Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (eds) The Oxford companion to Australian politics Oxford University Press, Melbourne 2007 pp. 332-333.
  • ‘Continuing the ‘excavation’ of Marx’s work’ Australian journal of political science 41 (3) September 2006 pp. 461-464.
  • ‘The history of class analysis in Australia’ Marxist interventions 2005, fulltext 1, fulltext2.
  • ‘Introduction’ Class and struggle in Australia Pearson, Sydney 2005 pp. 2-20.
  • ‘Illusions of equality: the capitalist state’ Class and struggle in Australia Pearson, Sydney 2005 pp. 40-54.
  • ‘Economic crisis and socialist revolution: Henryk Grossman’s Law of accumulation, its first critics and his responses’ in Paul Zarembka (ed.) Neoliberalism in crisis, accumulation, and Rosa Luxemburg’s legacy: Research in political economy 21, Elsevir, Amsterdam 2004 pp. 181-221 preprint version.
  • Preface to Henryk Grossman ‘The theory of economic crisis’ in Paul Zarembka and Susanne Soederberg (eds) Value, capitalist dynamics, and money: Research in Political Economy 18, Elsevir Science, New York 2000 pp. 172-174.
  • ‘Marxist political economy in Australia since the mid 1970s’ Journal of Australian political economy 50, 2002 pp. 107-129.
  • ‘The capitalist state’ in George Agyrous and Frank Stilwell (eds) Economics as a social science: readings in political economy second edition, Pluto, Annandale, 2003 pp. 280-284 ‘Politische Bildung in Australien’ (‘Civics education in Australia’) Politische Bildung 33 (2) 2000 pp. 134-147.
  • ‘The threat of fascism in Austria’ Monthly review 52 (2) June 2000 pp. 21-35.
  • ‘Can corporatism survive? A comparative study of Australia and South Africa’, South African Journal of labour relations 23 (1), 1999 pp. 4-30, with Tom Bramble.
  • ‘How much can civics education achieve?’ Civics, democracy and politics: perspectives and resources for teachers Australian Curriculum Studies Association, Canberra 1999 pp. 7-11.
  • ‘Democracy lost’ Civics, democracy and politics: perspectives and resources for teachers Australian Curriculum Studies Association, Canberra 1999 pp. 41-43.
  • ‘Social democracy after the long boom: economic restructuring under Australian Labor, 1983 to 1996’ in Martin Upchurch (ed.) The state and ‘globalisation’: comparative studies of labour and capital in national economies Mansell, London 1999 pp. 20-55, ISBN 0-7201-2367-4, with Tom Bramble ‘Capitalist breakdown controversy’ in Phillip O’Hara (ed.) The encyclopedia of political economy Routledge, London and New York 1999 pp. 69-72.
  • ‘Making the communist revolution’ in Geoff Dow and George Lafferty (eds) Everlasting uncertainty: interrogating The Communist Manifesto 1848-1998 Pluto Press, Sydney 1998 pp. 229-238.
  • ‘Rural reaction and war on the waterfront in Australia’ Monthly review 50 (6) November 1998 pp. 30-40.
  • ‘The civics push’ Education links 56/57 Spring 1998, pp. 13-16 (as ‘Gordon Crane’).
  • ‘Laborism and foreign policy: the case of the Vietnam War’ in David Lee and Christopher Waters (eds) Evatt to Evans: the Labor tradition in Australian foreign policy Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1997 pp. 77-98.
  • ‘Class in Australia - a symposium’ Overland 149 Summer 1997 pp. 33-36.
  • ‘The Australian left, nationalism and the Vietnam war’ Labour history 72 May 1997 pp. 163-184 ‘Grossmann on class struggle, beyond exegesis: a response to Lapides’ Science & society 61 (2) Summer 1997 pp. 236-243.
  • ‘The pattern of the Australian Labor Party’s foreign policy since 1900’ Left history 3(2)/4(1) 1996 pp. 85-32. *‘Blueprint for irrelevance: a critique of the Evatt Foundation’s Unions 2001: A Blueprint for Trade Union Activism’ Reconstruction 6 Summer 1995/1996 pp. 41-44.
  • ‘Class analysis and the left in Australian history’ in R. Kuhn and T. O’Lincoln (eds) Class and class conflict in Australia Longman, Melbourne 1996 pp. 145-162.
  • ‘Introduction’ to R. Kuhn and T. O’Lincoln (eds) Class and class conflict in Australia Longman, Melbourne 1996, with T. O’Lincoln.
  • ‘Capitalism’s collapse: Henryk Grossmann’s Marxism’ Science & society 59 (2) Summer 1995, pp. 174-193.
  • ‘The political economy of restructuring in Germany and Australia during the 1980s and 1990s’ in Manfred Jurgensen (ed.) German-Australian cultural relations since 1945 Peter Lang, Bern 1995 pp. 40-62.
  • ‘Whose cold war? Capitalism, class and economic crisis’ in Ralph Summy and Michael Salla Why the cold war ended: a range of interpretations, Greenwood, Boulder 1995 pp. 153-169.
  • ‘Who rules Australia?’ in I. McAllister, W. Maley, D. Lovell and C. Kukuthas The Australian political system Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1995 pp. 234-235; 1998 second edition pp. 370-371.
  • ‘Fascism in Germany today’ Debatte: review of contemporary German affairs 2 1993 pp. 131-151.
  • ‘The limits of social democratic policy in Australia’ Capital and class 51 1993 pp. 15-51.
  • ‘Germany: the contradictions of success’ Current affairs bulletin 69 (4) September 1992 pp. 11-20.
  • ‘A comment on Maddox and Battin, Johnson and Manning’ Australian journal of political science 27 (2) 1992 pp. 357-361.
  • ‘The Accord and business: the distinctiveness of the Hawke Government’s approach to capital accumulation’ in B. Galligan and G. Singleton Business and Government under Labor Longman Cheshire, Melbourne 1991 pp. 47-74.
  • ‘Marxism: Dead or Alive?’ Political theory newsletter 2 (2) 1990 pp. 209-219.
  • ‘Australia and fluctuations in the world economy’ World review December 1989 pp. 35-60.
  • ‘What a Labor government is’ Politics 24 (2) November 1989 pp. 147-153.
  • ‘Political review’ Australian quarterly 61(1) Autumn 1989 pp. 107-114.
  • ‘Lenin on the ALP: the career of 600 words’ Australian Journal of Politics and History 35 (1) 1989 pp. 29-49.
  • ‘Labor in power’ Arena 88 Spring 1989 pp. 134-143.
  • ‘Profitability and economic crisis’, Journal of Australian political economy, 25 1989, pp. 44-69, with T. O’Lincoln.
  • ‘From one industry strategy to the next’ review article Politics 23 (2) November 1988 pp. 110-116.
  • ‘Labour movement economic thought in the 1930s: underconsumptionism and Keynesian economics’, Australian economic history review 28 (2) September 1988 pp. 53-72.
  • ‘Workers, capital and the protection racket’ in V. Burgmann and J. Lee (eds) A most valuable acquisition: a people’s history of Australia McPhee Gribble/Penguin 1988 pp. 123-136.
  • ‘Industry policy and the working class’ Politics 22 (2), November 1987 pp. 97-102.
  • ‘Foreign Investment’ entry in Australians: a historical dictionary Fairfax, Syme and Weldon, Sydney 1987 pp. 158-159.
  • ‘Alternative strategies: left nationalism and revolutionary Marxism’ Journal of australian political economy 10/11, 1982 pp. 93-109.
  • ‘Whose boom: left nationalism and the resources boom’ International socialist 12 Summer 1981-82 pp. 18-30.
  • ‘Thin cats and socialism: class struggle within the state’ International Socialist 10 Augsut 1980 pp. 5-19.
  • ‘A poor start to prosperity: the origins of the post-war boom in Australia’ International socialist 8 Autumn 1979 pp. 5-10.

Reviews

  • Erik Paul Little America: Australia, the 51st State?, Contemporary politics 13 (3) September 2007 pp. 280-282.
  • Nathan Hollier (ed.) Ruling Australia: the power, privilege & politics of the new ruling class, Australian journal of political science 41 (3) September 2006, pp. 272-273.
  • Andrei Markovits and Philip Gorski The German left: red green and beyond, Australian journal of international affairs 49 (1) May 1995 p. 165.
  • Peter Beilharz Labour’s utopias, Labour history 65 November 1993 pp. 223-225.
  • B. Dyster and D. Meredith Australia and the international economy in the twentieth century, Australian journal of politics and history 38(2) 1992 pp. 295-296.
  • C. Fox Working Australia, Australian journal of politics and history 38(3) 1992 pp. 469-470 V. Burgmann Power and protest: movements for change in Australian society, Australian journal of political science 28 (1) 1993 pp. 163-164.
  • P. Buhle Marxism in the USA and H. Draper Socialism from below: selected essays 28 (1) 1993 pp. 192-194.
  • N. Bobbio Which socialism?, Australian journal of political science 27 (3) 1992 p. 573.
  • M. Sully A contemporary history of Austria and A. Pelinka and F. Plasser The Austrian party system, Australian journal of politics and history 37 (2) 1991 pp. 370-372.
  • S. McCarney Social theory and the crisis of Marxism, Australian journal of political science 26 (1) 1991 pp. 170-171.
  • A. Wells Constructing capitalism, Australian journal of politics and history 37 (1) 1991 p. 121.
  • P. Drysdale International Economic pluralism, Canberra bulletin of public administration 60 February 1990 pp. 119-120.
  • T. Sheridan Division of labour, Australian journal of political science 25 (2) 1990 pp. 354-355.
  • M. Bray and M. Rimmer Delivering the goods, Australian journal of politics and history 34 (3) 1988 pp. 458-459.
  • K. Hamada The political economy of international monetary independence, Economic record December 1988 pp. 375-376.
  • K. Buckley and E. Wheelwright No paradise for workers, Australian journal of Politics and history 34 (3) 1988 pp. 459-460.
  • C. Hood Administrative Analysis, Australian journal of politics and history 33 (2) 1987 p. 175 B. Head The Politics of development in Australia, Australian and New Zealand journal of sociology 23 (3) 1987 pp. 448-450.
  • A. Levine Arguing for socialism, Australian journal of politics and history 33 (1) 1987 p. 113 C. Chamberlain Class consciousness in Australia, Australian journal of politics and history 32 (2) 1986 pp. 310-311.
  • J. Powis Aristocracy, Australian Journal of politics and history 32 (2) 1986pp. 344-345 M. Dickenson Democracy in trade unions, Australian journal of public administration 42(2) 1983 pp. 288-290.
  • B. Catley and B. McFarlane Australian capitalism in boom and depression, Arena 61 1982 pp. 181-186.