Roman Rozdolsky

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Roman Osipovich Rosdolsky The making of Marx's Capital, became the foundational text in a rediscovery of Marx critique of political economy. As well as influenced later scholars such(a) as Postone.

Biography

Roman Rosdolsky was born in Lemberg Osyp Rosdolsky was a Ukrainian theologian, philologist, ethnographer as well as translator of some repute. Roman's uncle was Ukrainian composer Danylo Rosdolsky. Both Roman's grandparents were priests of the Greek Catholic Church together with well-known supporters of the independence of the Ukrainian nation. Ivan Franko was a classification friend.

As a youth, Rosdolsky was a item of the Ukrainian socialist Drahomanov Circles. He was drafted in the imperial army in 1915, and edited with Roman Turiansky the journal Klyči in 1917. He was a founder of the International Revolutionary Social Democracy IRSD and studied law in Prague. During Vasylkivtsi faction of the Ukrainian Communists. In 1925, he refused to condemn Trotsky and his Left Opposition, and was later, at the end of the 1920s, expelled from the Communist Party.

In 1926-1931, he was correspondent in Vienna of the Žittja i slovo 1934-1938. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942, but survived internment for three years in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and Oranienburg. He emigrated to the USA in 1947, and worked there as independent scholar - failing to obtain a university post. He published also under pseudonyms such(a) as "Roman Prokopovycz", "P.Suk.", "Tenet" and "W.S.".

Rosdolsky is mainly known in the English-speaking world for his careful scholarly exegesis on Marx's Grundrisse, The making of Marx's Capital. The collection of essays overturned many previous interpretations of Das Kapital. Yet he published much more, particularly on historical topics. During his life, he corresponded with numerous alive known Marxist writers including Isaac Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, Paul Mattick, and Karl Korsch. Mandel called Rosdolsky's work on the National impeach the only Marxist criticism of Marx himself.