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Johann Karl Rodbertus
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<p>Johann Karl Rodbertus (August 12, 1805, in <a href="/facts/Greifswald/BLuvVmTo">Greifswald</a>, <a href="/facts/Swedish_Pomerania/qQyLpIAt">Swedish Pomerania</a> – December 6, 1875, in <a href="/facts/V%25C3%25B6lschow/UX13BI7f">Jagetzow</a>), also known as Karl Rodbertus-Jagetzow, was a German economist and socialist and a leading member of the <i>Linkes Zentrum</i> (centre-left) in the Prussian national assembly. He defended the <a href="/facts/Labor_theory_of_value/N01J0w3j">labor theory of value</a>, as well as the view, which it implied, of interest or profit being theft. He believed that <a href="/facts/Capitalist/FbPc6TTw">capitalist</a> economies tend toward <a href="/facts/Overproduction/ktdFQ4ps">overproduction</a>. </p>