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238:, Rubin refused to confirm the existence of a Menshevik organisation. Although he agreed to make false statements regarding Riazanov's correspondence with other secret Mensheviks, he claimed that this was done on the basis of "great personal trust" rather than organisational discipline. As a result of this failure to fully cooperate with his prosecutors, Rubin was sentenced to five years in prison. Although he attempted to shield Riazanov from the worst charges, Rubin emerged from the experience "morally broken, destroyed, degraded to a state of complete hopelessness". 44: 371:). In this interpretation of Marx, "it is the development of the forms of exchange that is seen as the prime determinant of the capitalist economy rather than the content regulated by it". Capitalism is here understood as a method of regulating human labor by giving it the social form of an exchangeable 226:
On January 28, 1931, Rubin was brought to another cell, where he was shown another prisoner and told that if he did not confess, the prisoner would be shot. Rubin refused and the prisoner was executed before him. The process was repeated the next night. After the second shooting, Rubin negotiated a
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Rubin served most of his prison term in solitary confinement, during which he continued his research as best as he could. When he fell ill with a suspected cancer, he was removed to a hospital and encouraged to make further confessions in return for favourable treatment, but declined the offer. He
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with his later economic theory, Rubin argued that Marx's mature economic work represented the culmination of his lifetime project to understand how human creative power is shaped, defined, and limited by social structures, which take on a uniquely "objective" economic form under
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is not a historical phenomenon that developed into capitalism, as it is often understood by both Marxists and critics of Marx; rather, it is a theoretical abstraction that explains one aspect of a fully developed capitalist economy. The concept of
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on 19 November 1937. After this arrest he was never seen alive again. He was executed under the accusation of Trotskyist conspiracy on 25 November 1937. He was rehabilitated during the period of
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also repeatedly called for his release. He was once again arrested in 1923 and imprisoned until December 1924, eventually being exiled to Crimea until 1926.
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in Isaac Illych Rubin. Marxforscher – Okonom – Verbannter (1886-1937) Beitrage zur Marx-Engels-Forschung NF, vol. 4 Argument, Hamburg, 2012, pp. 9–118.
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approach to economic categories, and separating form from content. He became the target of a campaign that culminated in an indictment published in
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Boldyrev, Ivan and Martin Kragh. "Isaak Rubin: Historian of Economic Thought During the Stalinization of Social Sciences in Soviet Russia,"
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According to Arthur, the rediscovery of Rubin's "masterly exegesis" was "the most important single influence on the value form approach to
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Politische Ökonomie als Gesellschaftstheorie. Studien zur Marx-Rezeption von Isaak Iljitsch Rubin und
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Rubin was arrested on December 23, 1930, and accused of being a member of the All-Union Bureau of
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Die dialektische Darstellung des allgemeinen Begriffs des Kapitals im Lichte der Philosophie
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from the third edition, Moscow, Leningrad 1928. Fourth Printing. Montreal, New York 1990.
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Inklinks 1979. Translated and edited by Donald Filtzer from 2nd Revised Russian ed 1929.
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Philosophy: On the Logical Analysis of Political Economy with Special Consideration of
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in November 1930 accusing Rubin of being a member of a "Menshevik-kulak" conspiracy.
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The Dialectical Presentation of the General Notion of Capital in the Light of
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was published in 1924. Prior to his arrest, Rubin also published books on the
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He withdrew from politics in 1924, devoting himself to the academic study of
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was published in 1924. He was executed in 1937 during the course of the
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was released on a commuted sentence in 1934 and allowed to work in
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as a research assistant. The Marx-Engels Institute was headed by
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Rubin's main work emphasised the importance of Marx's theory of
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and contemporary economics, as well as editing an anthology of
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Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism
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Isaac I. Rubin e sua história do pensamento econômico
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Index

Eastern Slavic naming customs
patronymic
family name
Rubin

Russian
[ɪsɐˈakɪˈlʲjit͡ɕˈrubʲɪn]
Soviet
Marxian economist
Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
Great Purge
Lithuanian Jewish
Revolution of 1905
Jewish Bund
Mensheviks
Menshevik-Internationalists
Russian Revolution
Bolshevik
Russian Communist Party (b)
Cheka
Anatoly Lunacharsky
Mikhail Pokrovsky
David Ryazanov
Marxian economics
Marx-Engels Institute
David Riazanov
Joseph Stalin
Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
history of economics
classical political economy

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