Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus

The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism ( HKWM ) is a multi-volume, German -language historical dictionary of Marxist conceptual terms. It is applied to 15 volumes in which more than 1,500 words are presented in the context of Marxism. The work is to be completed by 2021; Since 1994, seven volumes have been published in the argument publisher. The dictionary is published by the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory, conducted by Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frigga Haug and Peter Jehle.

Formation

The HKWM was established in 1983 initially as a supplement to the German edition of the Dictionnaire Critique du Marxisme ( Critical Dictionary of Marxism ), the "french embossed " state of the debate had been criticized by his editor, Wolfgang Haug. With the end of state socialism, this approach was abandoned and the project opened further for authors from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Conception

The HKWM leans on in his conception of the Historical Dictionary of philosophy, in which it, however, as Wolfgang Fritz Haug finds in the selection of lemmas and the presentation of the material " very little overlap " there.

It handles theoretical and political- strategic terms, which go back to Marx and Engels. In addition, keywords are added that are not Marxist origin, provided that in them " historically new problems or knowledge claims articulate " or " neglected side of Marxism in the foreground " be moved. These include conceptual neologisms, the actual present problems articulate how the " transition to high-tech production of transnational capitalism ", the "failure of the Soviet social formation ", the " North -South conflict " and the " new social movements " ( women's movement, ecology movement).

The work will " after the crash of the communist experiment " on the one hand with Marxism deal as a historical phenomenon, without the " science, culture and politics of the 20th century " would not be adequate to understand. In addition, the editors keep Marxism for a project that was long pending, " have become the existence of problems to which it has begun to respond, not dissolved or meaningless " as.

Reception

The book project was welcomed because it had been a desideratum for a long time to be able to get precise information to Marxist technical terms. Blessed is the thematic extension to newer fields such as feminism and the ecology movement, and the openness and pluralism in the choice of keywords such as " Jazz ", " jeans ", " internet ", " Ich-AG " or " irony ". As strength of the dictionary and the treatise of capitalist globalization and its political impact was highlighted.

Although the HKWM an open and non-dogmatic Marxism term and a critical attitude towards the power politics of the Soviet Union be certified, it is also an over-emphasis of Marxism- Leninism, a distance to the classical Critical Theory and an ignorance of the newer, non-academic leaning against the Critical Theory value criticism been accused. Rolf Hecker laments his cue Article Simple commodity production had been changed without his consent, Heinz Gess has its planned contribution Critical Theory of disagreement over the scope and concept of the line of appearing in the same magazine publisher withdrew the argument.

Years of volumes

  • Volume 1: Degradation of the state - Avantgarde (1994 )
  • Volume 2: Bank - stupidity in music ( 1995)
  • Volume 3: Level - Extremism (1997)
  • Volume 4: Fable - counter-power (1999)
  • Volume 5: counter-public - Hegemonialapparat (2001)
  • Volume 6 / I: hegemony - Imperialism (2004)
  • Band 6/II: Empire - Justice (2004)
  • Volume 7 / I: cadre party - clones ( 2008)
  • Band 7/II: bondage - Crisis of Marxism (2010)
  • Volume 8 / I: Crisis Theory - line Luxembourg / Gramsci (2012 )
  • Band 8/II: Left / Right - machinery
  • Volume 9: Masses - a natural growth
  • Volume 10: Negation of the negation - Fantasy
  • Volume 11: Philosophy - Regulationsthoerie
  • Volume 12: Wealth - Sorelismus
  • Volume 13: Soviet - text
  • Volume 14: Theatre - understand / explain
  • Volume 15: Trial - cynicism
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