Rudolf Hilferding

Judith Dellheim is a senior research fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany. She has worked in the foreign trade of the GDR. Since 1990, she has been working on economies of solidarity, on political parties and movements, and on economic policies. She has been a member of the Federal Board of the PDS in 1995–2003, a freelance scientific consultant from 2004–2010, and senior researcher at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation since 2011. She is co-editor of Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy and The Unfinished System of Karl Marx. Frieder Otto Wolf is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He has been a lecturer in philosophy at this institution since 1973, and became Honorary Professor in 2007. He has served as a fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and sits on the advisory board of several journals. He has published books and articles on political philosophy, the politics of labor, the politics of sustainability, political epistemology, and metaphilosophy, including as co-editor of Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy and The Unfinished System of Karl Marx.

• Introduction: Critically Returning to Rudolf Hilferding Judith Dellheim and Frieder Otto Wolf.- Rethinking Hilferding’s Finance Capital Michael R. Krätke.- From Luxemburg to Sweezy: Notes on the Intellectual Influence of Hilferding’s Finance Capital Nikos Stravelakis.- Contradictions in Hilferding’s Finance Capital: Money, banking and crisis tendencies Patrick Bond.- Finance Capital, Financialisation and the Periodisation of Capitalist Development Andy Kilmister.- A New Finance Capital? Theorizing Corporate Governance and Financial Power Steve Maher and Scott Aquanno.- Finance Capital and Contemporary Financialisation Radhika Desai.- Finance Capital and Militarism as Pillars of Contemporary Capitalism Claude Serfati.- Hilferding and the Large-scale Enterprise John Grahl.- Hilferding and Kalecki  Jan Toporowski.- Ludwik Krzywicki’s  Anticipation of Hilferding Jan Toporowski.- A Socialist Third Way? Rudolf Hilferding’s Evolutionary Socialism as Syncopated Note to Early Neoliberalism Patrick Higgins.- Hilferding as an Eclectic: A History of Economic Thought Perspective on Finance Capital Jan Greitens.- Rudolf Hilferding on the Economic Categories of ‘public limited company/share capital’: A Refinement of the Critique of Political Economy? Judith Dellheim.- Hilferding’s Impressive Failure. A Reading of His Last Major Text Frieder Otto Wolf.- The Forgotten “Notes”. Rudolf Hilferding’s still unpublished complements to his manuscript “The Historical Problem” Michael R. Krätke Rudolf Hilferding - A Born Journalist  Michael R. Krätke.- Postface: From Rudolf Hilferding to Eugen Varga – towardsa further book project Judith Dellheim and Frieder Otto Wolf.