ABSTRACT
On Friday, the 9th of September 1932, a former subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Arnošt (also called Ernst) Kolman (1892–1979)—who was then an employee of the Communist Academy founded in 1918 in Moscow, the “Capital of World Revolution”—delivered a lecture in Section VII, devoted to “Philosophy and History”, of the 9th International Congress of Mathematicians held in Zurich. The lecture was on “A new foundation of differential calculus by Karl Marx”. 1 He belonged to a delegation consisting of eleven scholars from the U.S.S.R., both as one of the four-member delegation of the “Government of U.S.S.R.” and, also as a representative of the “Communist Academy (Moscow)”. 2 He declared before the mathematicians present that:
