Rick Kuhn (born 18 September 1955) is an
Australian Marxian economist, political analyst and reader at the
Australian National University in
Canberra
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. He is best known for his biographical study on
Henryk Grossman, for which he won the
Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2007.
Chris Harman of the
British Socialist Workers Party and editor of ''
International Socialism'' described the biography as "a valuable addition to our theoretical armour." Kuhn is of
Jewish origin and is a member of ''Jews Against Oppression and Occupation''.
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''Socialist Alternative'', 106, 25 August 2006. Accessed: 3 July 2009. He was the convenor of ACTNOW, the umbrella
anti-war
An anti-war movement (also ''antiwar'') is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term anti-war can also refer to pa ...
organisation in Canberra, formed in response to the wars on
Afghanistan and
Iraq. He is also a long-term member of the
Trotskyist organisation
Socialist Alternative and was a founding editor of the online journal ''Marxist Interventions''. Kuhn has published articles in ''Socialist Alternative'',
''International Socialist Review'', ''
Socialist Worker'', ''
New Matilda'', ''
Monthly Review
The ''Monthly Review'', established in 1949, is an independent socialist magazine published monthly in New York City. The publication is the longest continuously published socialist magazine in the United States.
History Establishment
Following ...
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ZNet'', ''
The Canberra Times'' and various academic journals and edited collections.
Rick Kuhn: publications.
Accessed: 11 December 2011
Selected books
''Labor's Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class''
(with Tom Bramble), Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2010.
''Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism''
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2007.
''Class and Struggle in Australia''
(edited) Pearson Education Australia, Melbourne, 2005.
''Class & Class Conflict in Australia''
(edited with Tom O'Lincoln) Longman Australia, Melbourne, 1996.
References
External links
Rick Kuhn's website
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1955 births
Living people
Australian National University faculty
Australian Trotskyists
Marxist writers
Deutscher Memorial Prize winners
Labor historians