Abram Moissejewitsch Deborin

Abram Moissejewitsch Deborin (also A. Mojsejewitsch Deborin, Russian Абрам Моисеевич Деборин ; * 4th June ^July / 16 June 1881 ^greg. In Kovno , Lithuania ; † March 8th 1963 in Moscow , original surname Joffe ) was a Soviet philosopher and Writer. From 1925 to 1930 he was one of the leading Marxist philosophers in the USSR.

Life

Deborin was born into a penniless Jewish family in Kovno and learned the plumbing trade in his youth. At the age of 16 he became a member of illegal Marxist circles. In 1903 he went into exile and studied at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bern , where he became friends with Georgi Plechanow . In 1908 he returned to Russia. In 1928 he became a member of the Bolsheviks in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . Before that he had first approached the Mensheviks , after which he was non-party for years. Deborin held lectures at the Communist Academy and at the so-called Institute of Red Professors .

In 1924 he criticized Georg Lukács ' history and class consciousness .

His work Introduction to the Philosophy of Dialectical Materialism , written in 1907 but only published in Russian in 1915 , belonged to the canon of philosophy in Russia , according to Leszek Kołakowski . From 1926 Deborin was editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Under the Banner of Marxism (Pod Znamieniem Markszisma). In this function he took a dominant position in the struggle of the dialecticians against the mechanicists , which was carried out in Soviet philosophy, and played a decisive role in the victory of the dialecticians.

In 1931 he and his supporters, the so-called Deborists, fell out of favor with Stalin and Deborin was removed from the post of editor-in-chief. However, he did not fall victim to the Stalinist purges and was able to continue to publish numerous articles.

During the reign of Khrushchev Deborin sought to rehabilitate colleagues who had fallen out of favor under Stalin and had been killed.

source

Leszek Kołakowski : The main currents of Marxism - emergence, development, disintegration Volume 3 , pp. 77–90.

Works

AM Deborin: Lenin, the fighting materialist. Makol-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971.
AM Deborin, NI Bukharin : Controversies over Dialectical and Mechanistic Materialism. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1969.
AM Deborin: Lukács and his criticism of Marxism in: Arbeiterliteratur, Vienna 1924, issue 10, pp. 91–116

literature

René Ahlberg: AM Deborin. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1959.

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personal data
SURNAME	Deborin, Abram Moissejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dborin, Mojsejewitsch Abram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kovno , Lithuania
DATE OF DEATH	March 8, 1963
Place of death	Moscow