Robert Kurz (philosopher)

Robert Kurz (24 December 1943 – 18 July 2012) was a German Marxist philosopher, social critic, journalist and editor of the journal Exit! He was one of Germany's most prominent theorists of value criticism.[1]

Robert Kurz on an ATTAC-congress in March 2009

Life and work

Robert Kurz was born on 24 December 1943 in Nuremberg to a German working-class family. Kurz studied philosophy, history and paedagogy at the university of Erlangen without taking a degree. He was a member of the Kommunistischer Arbeiterbund Deutschland, KABD (Communist Workers League of Germany; later, named the Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany) during the 1970s, but then quit because of his critique of the leadership.[2]

Kurz was a co-founder of the magazine Marxistische Kritik (Marxist Critique) in 1986 and participated in the creation of the Krisis group, around which Wertkritik concept was developed.

He died in Nuremberg from the consequences of an operational failure.

Selected Bibliography

Author
  • The Collapse of Modernization: From the collapse of barracks socialism crisis of the world economy (1991) ISBN 3-8218-4421-3
  • Honecker's Revenge: On the political economy of the reunified Germany (1991) ISBN 3-923118-62-7
  • Potemkin's Return: Dummy capitalism and distribution war in Germany (1993) ISBN 3-923118-28-7
  • The Last One Turns Off the Light: On the crisis of democracy and market economy (1993) ISBN 3-923118-88-0
  • The World as Will and Design: Postmodernism, lifestyle Left and the aestheticization of the crisis (1999) ISBN 3-89320-024-X
  • The Black Book of Capitalism: A Farewell to the Market Economy (1999) ISBN 3-8218-0491-2
  • Marx Read: The most important texts of Karl Marx for the 21st Century (2000) ISBN 3-8218-1644-9
  • World Order War: The End of Sovereignty and the changes of imperialism in the era of globalization (2003) ISBN 3-89502-149-0
  • The Anti-German Ideology (2003) ISBN 3-89771-426-4
  • Bloody Reason: Essays for emancipatory critique of capitalist modernity and its Western values (2004) ISBN 3-89502-182-2
  • The World Capital: Globalization and internal barriers of modern commodity-producing system (2005) ISBN 3-89320-085-1
  • Money Without Value: Plans to transform the critique of political economy (2012) ISBN 978-3-89502-343-9
gollark: I think those are also mostly stupid.
gollark: It might also turn out that society is impractical to simulate over long timespans, like the weather.
gollark: And the existence of the simulators would make them probably not very good, since they'd need to simulate *themselves* or leave out important data.
gollark: Yes, that would actually be very hard.
gollark: You can't really do theory unless you have empirical stuff to look at, since you're mostly just reduced to "well my assumptions are better"/"but I prefer this".

See also

References
  1. "Erneuerer des Marxismus: Robert Kurz ist tot" Spiegel Online. 20 July 2012. Retrieved on 6 September 2012.
  2. Geschichte der MLPD, II. Teil, 2. Halbband, ISBN 3-88021-151-5, p. 405.


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