Richard B. Day, Ph. D. (1970), University of London, is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published extensively on Soviet economic and political history, including Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation (Cambridge University Press, 1973).Daniel F. Gaido, Ph.D. (2000), University of Haifa (Israel), is a researcher at the National Research Council (Conicet), Argentina. He is the author of The Formative Period of American Capitalism (Routledge, 2006) and co-editor, together with Richard B. Day, of Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record (Haymarket Books, 2011).

“Responses to Marx spans an astonishing range of articles from many of the greatest Marxists to have written. Consistently brilliant throughout, the translations shine.”—Bill Jefferies, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

• Introduction: The Early Reception of Marx’s Economic WorksWhy Does Marx Matter?Richard B. Day1 Karl Marx’s Point of View in his Political-Economic Critique: A Review of Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1872)Illarion Ignat’evich Kaufmann2 The History of a Book [On the Fortieth Anniversary of the Publication of Capital, Vol. I] (1907)Otto Bauer3 “The Poverty of Philosophy” and “Capital” (1886)Karl Kautsky4 A Contribution to the Critique of Karl Marx’s Economic System (1894)Werner Sombart5 Theories of Surplus Value (1905)Heinrich Cunow6 Marx’s Critique of Ricardo (1906)Gustav Eckstein7 The Prehistory of Marxian Economics (1911–12)Rudolf Hilferding8 Theories of Surplus Value (1910)Otto Bauer9 A Contribution to the Understanding of Marx’s Research Method (1910)Heinrich Cunow10 On the History of the Theory of Value (1903)Rudolf Hilferding11 Karl Marx’s Formulation of the Problem of Theoretical Economics (1905)Rudolf Hilferding12 Back to Adam Smith! (1900)Rosa Luxemburg13 Werner Sombart’s Modern Capitalism (1903)Rudolf Hilferding14 The Psychological Tendency in Recent Political Economy (1892)Conrad Schmidt15 The Austrian School (1926)I.I. Rubin16 Marx’s Teaching on Production and Consumption (1930)I.I. Rubin17 Fundamental Features of Marx’s Theory of Value and How it Differs from Ricardo’s Theory (1924)I.I. Rubin18 Towards a History of the Text of the First Chapter of Marx’s Capital (1929)I.I. Rubin19 Essays on Marx’s Theory of Money (1926–8)I.I. Rubin20 The Dialectical Development of Categories in Marx’s Economic System (1929)I.I. RubinAppendix: Pages from the Life and Creative Work of Economist I.I. Rubin (1992)Lyudmila L. Vasina and Yakov G. RokityanskyReferencesIndex