Julian Gumperz

Julian Gumperz (1898 to 1972) was a United States-born German sociologist, communist activist, publicist and translator, one of the lesser known communist proponents of the Frankfurt School. He studied political economy at Halle, left university as a committed Marxist and in 1919 founded the Berlin monthly Der Gegner with Karl Otten, a satirical and political review that carried art by George Grosz. He later edited the communist newspaper Die Rote Fahne and worked as an assistant at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, where his work focused on economics. In 1933 the institute sent him to the United States to assess its situation, and there he left the Communist Party and became a stockbroker, publicist and translator. In 1947 he co-wrote Pattern for World Revolution under the pseudonym Ypsilon.