Rudolf Hilferding bibliography

Edited to upload another Kurata work.

Btw, Sam Gordon was the translator of Finance capital. He became a Trotskyist in America. For the sake of political activity in 1929 he went to Germany. In a 1930 text (aged 19 then) Gordon spoke about the influence of American finance capital:

The favorable German industrial conditions, to be made yet more favorable by the greater depression of the German working masses soon to follow, now attract all the capital that formerly went to the prosperity-promising American industry. This means an advanced internationalization of industrial capital and a firmer grip on the latter by world finance capital (Morgan and Co.). How this works out in Germany may be gathered from the growing dictatorial strength of Morgan’s German representative, Hjalmar Schacht, the president of the Reichsbank. Herr Schacht is the man who tumbled Hilferding from his ministerial chair, because he was not far-reaching enough in his “reforms” and because, for reasons of political demagogy, he didn’t go in energetically for immediately carrying out these reforms.

Cartoon of Hilferding's ouster as finance minister in 1929 over his attempt to get a loan from the American investment bank Dillon Read & Co, which was the main competitor of Morgan & Co.

Parker Gilbert (an associate with Morgan) even mobilized the French to put on pressure (see pp. 646–7 here).

An eyewitness account by Gijsbert Bruins (in Dutch) of the personalities involved here.

There's a section called LA SOCIAL-DÉMOCRATIE ET LA FINANCE AMÉRICAINE A propos de la démission de Hilferding in Pierre Naville's L'entre-deux guerres: La lutte des classes en France, 1927-1939 (624 pages, 1975).

Some further background:
McNeil, William C., American Money and the Weimar Republic: Economics and Politics on the Eve of the Great Depression. New York: Columbia University, 1986, 352 p.

[quote=Hershel D. Meyer (Must we Perish?)]The "Marshall Plans" of that period were called the Dawes and Young plans, after the American bankers who devised them. The Morgan trusts, through the banker Charles G. Dawes, and Herbert Hoover, and the General Electric combine, through Owen D. Young, arranged for billions in American private and public funds to be poured into Germany. S. Parker Gilbert, a Morgan partner, was appointed general reparations agent for Germany. Herbert Hoover, John Foster Dulles, Averell Harriman drew up the Dawes plan with Hjalmar Schacht, the German financial manipulator, and floated other American loans to Berlin as well. Additional American investments of $420,000,000 in oil, electric, auto and aircraft factories supplied the German reactionaries, and later Hitler, with a first rate industry. All told, Wall Street sank some four billion dollars into Germany in the five years after 1924.

The biggest role in channeling American capital into Germany was played by Dillon Read and Company, New York investment bankers, directed by William Draper and James Forrestal (later to become top policy makers in the Truman administration1). At Schacht's request they unloaded, on behalf of the Reichsbank, seven and a half billion depreciated marks on American buyers to whom they were recommended as a good investment. No sooner did Dillon Read dispose of them than they were declared worthless by the German government. The loot was divided between Dillon Read and Company and the Reichsbank.[/quote]