Henryk Grossman
| Henryk Grossman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 14, 1881 Kraków, Grand Duchy of Cracow, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | November 24, 1950 (aged 69) Leipzig, East Germany |
| Nationality | Polish/German |
| School or tradition |
Marxian economics |
| Influences | Carl Grünberg |
| Influenced | Chris Harman, Paul Mattick |
Henryk Grossman (alternative spelling: Henryk Grossmann; April 14, 1881 – November 24, 1950) was an economist, historian, and revolutionary from Galicia.
Grossman's key contribution to political-economic theory was his book, The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, a study in Marxian crisis theory. It was published in Leipzig months before the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
Grossman was born as Chaskel Grossman into a relatively prosperous Jewish family in Kraków, Poland (then part of Austrian Galicia).
He joined the socialist movement around 1898, becoming a member of the Social Democratic Party of Galicia (GPSD), an affiliate of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria. The GPSD, led by Ignacy Daszyński, was formally Marxist, but dominated by Polish nationalists close to the Polish Socialist Party (PPS). When the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party in Galicia (USPD) was formed in 1899, the GSPD became the Polish Social Democratic Party (PPSD) and the Polish nationalist current was strengthened. Grossman led the resistance of orthodox Marxists to this current. Along with Karl Radek, he was active in the socialist student movement, particularly in Ruch (Movement), which included members of the PPSD as well as of the two socialist parties in the Kingdom of Poland, the PPS and the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL – led by Rosa Luxemburg and Leo Jogiches). He was the main figure in the newspaper Zjednoczenie (Unification), which took a line close to the SDKPiL, against the pro-PPS politics of Ruchs main organ, Promień for which he was censured by the PPSD and its newspaper Naprzód.
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