Rick Kuhn

Rick Kuhn (born 18 September 1955) is an Australian Marxian economist, political analyst and reader at the Australian National University in Canberra.^[1][2] He is best known for his biographical study on Henryk Grossman, for which he won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2007.^[3] Chris Harman of the British Socialist Workers Party and editor of International Socialism described the biography as "a valuable addition to our theoretical armour."^[4] Kuhn is of Jewish origin and is a member of Jews Against Oppression and Occupation.^[5] He was the convenor of ACTNOW, the umbrella anti-war organisation in Canberra, formed in response to the wars on Afghanistan^[6] and Iraq.^[7] He is also a long-term member of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative^[8] and was a founding editor of the online journal Marxist Interventions.^[9] Kuhn has published articles in Socialist Alternative,^[5] International Socialist Review,^[10] Socialist Worker,^[11] New Matilda,^[12] Monthly Review,^[13] ZNet,^[14] The Canberra Times^[15] and various academic journals and edited collections.^[16]

Selected books[edit]

^{[by whom?]}

• 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.

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External links[edit]

• Rick Kuhn's website