Kuruma Samezō
Kuruma Samezō ( Japanese 久留 間 鮫 造 ; born September 24, 1893 in Okayama Prefecture ; † October 20, 1982 ) was a Japanese Marxist economist . His main work is the Marx Lexicon on Political Economy , which also received great international attention.
life and work
Kuruma studied from 1914 to 1918 at the University of Tokyo and in 1919 worked at the Ōhara Institute for Social Research at the Hōsei University ( 法政 大学 大 原 社会 問題 研究所 , Hōsei daigaku Ōhara shakai mondai kenkyūjo ), where he worked until his death was (director from 1949 to 1966).
From 1920 to 1922 Kuruma stayed in Great Britain and Germany, where he continued his studies. After the Second World War, he held a visiting professorship at various Japanese universities. At the end of the 1920s, Kuruma dealt with the construction of Marx's capital and drew methodological conclusions from it for the explanation of the capitalist economic crises. He interpreted Marx's critique of political economy as a crisis theory and tried to break it down into the following areas: capital in general, competition, wages, rent, the state and the world crisis.
Together with other scholars (including Ōtani Teinosuke ), Kuruma published the Marx Lexicon , in which the relevant Marxian text passages are compiled on a specific topic. In addition, Kuruma emerged above all as a critic of the "Uno theory" of Uno Kōzō , known in Japan , which he attested to be undialectical in character.
Fonts
- as publisher: Marx-Lexikon zur Politische Ökonomie ( マ ル ク ス 経 済 学 レ キ シ コ ン ), 5 vols., Vaduz 1977 (1968–76)
- Monetary Theory , Tokyo 1979
- Marx's Theory of the Genesis of Money: How, Why and Through What is a Commodity Money? , Denver 2008. ISBN 978-1-4327-3052-9
literature
- E. Michael Schauerte: Samezo Kuruma's life as a Marxist Economist , in: Research in Political Economy 24 (2007), pp. 281ff. (General information on Kuruma, but also on his controversy with Kozo Uno)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ For the basic data of the life and thought of Kuruma see: Masao Oguro: Kuruma, Samezō , in: Werner Krause, Karl-Heinz Graupner, Rolf Sieber (ed.): Ökonomenlexikon . Berlin, Dietz 1989, p. 281
- ↑ Cf. Teinosuke Otani, Iichiro Sekine: Occupation with Marx and Engels in Japan. Research on the method of political economy and the history of the origins of capital , in: Internationale Marx-Engels -forschung (Marxist studies. Yearbook of the IMSF 12), Frankfurt / M. 1987, pp. 245-256 (here p. 248f.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuruma, Samezō |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 久留 間 鮫 造 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Okayama Prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1982 |