Heinrich Cunow (11 April 1862, in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin – 20 August 1936) was a German Social Democratic Party politician and prominent Marxist theorist.
[1] Cunow argued that German imperialism was progressive as antiquated methods of production by primitive people was swept aside by modernisation and industrial growth.
In this period he denounced the statement by the Social Democratic parliamentary group in defence of a universal right of self-determination for all people.
Cunow was appointed in 1919 as an associate professor of social sciences and economic history at the Frederick William University of Berlin.
[2][3] In 1933, after the Nazi Party came to power, Cunow lost his pension and his writings were publicly burned.