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Rudolf Hilferding

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Rudolf Hilferding was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, socialist theorist and politician who served as the chief theoretician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the Weimar Republic, almost universally recognized as its foremost theoretician of the twentieth century. He was also a trained physician. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1877 1
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Associated With

Social Democratic Party of Germany, Institutions and Social Structures
Source Rudolf Hilferding (Wikipedia)

Practices Studied

Capitalism, Institutions and Social Structures
Source Rudolf Hilferding (Wikipedia)
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Nationality

Austria

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Germany

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Sources
1. Wikidata: Rudolf Hilferding
  • Wikidata Q57848, class allow-list match, case-insensitive label variant (w-bbfill-smallsix2-0926/resolve_ci.ps1)
  • Wikidata Q57848, P569 (w-bbfill-smallsix3-0926)
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Rudolf Hilferding (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    Rudolf Hilferding (German: [ˈhɪlfɐdɪŋ]; 10 August 1877-11 February 1941) was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, socialist theorist, politician and the chief theoretician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic, being almost universally recognized as the SPD's foremost theoretician of the twentieth century.
  • Associated With: Social Democratic Party of Germany, Article text
    Rudolf Hilferding (German: [ˈhɪlfɐdɪŋ]; 10 August 1877-11 February 1941) was an Austrian-born Marxist economist, socialist theorist, politician and the chief theoretician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic, being almost universally recognized as the SPD's foremost theoretician of the twentieth century.
  • Practices Studied: Capitalism, Article text
    Writing in the context of the highly cartelized economy of late Austria-Hungary, Hilferding contrasted monopolistic finance capitalism to the earlier, "competitive" and "buccaneering" capitalism of the earlier liberal era.
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