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    Maschinerie
    In Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frigga Haug, Peter Jehle & Wolfgang Küttler (eds.), Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus. pp. 1-14. 1994.
    Der von Marx in K I ausgearbeitete Begriff fasst M als »gegliedertes Maschinensystem« (23/401), »technische Einheit« (400) der »Kooperation gleichartiger« oder »Kombination verschiedenartiger« und einander ergänzender »Arbeitsmaschinen« (401), die ihren »Impuls« vom »Herzschlag des gemeinsamen ersten Motors« mittels eines »Transmissionsmechanismus« empfangen (400). Ihre Anwendung, »das moderne Fabriksystem« (442), ergibt »das ökonomische Paradoxon, dass das gewaltigste Mittel zur Verkürzung der …Read more
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    Marx and Engels on Planetary Motion
    Beiträge Zur Marx-Engels-Forschung. Neue Folge 1 (2016/17): 202-224. 2018.
    For decades, the question of whether dialectics applies to nature has been a hotly debated topic in the Marxian literature. A number of authors have claimed that the Marxist outlook on nature and natural sciences has been for-mulated by Engels alone. According to this view, Marx, unlike Engels, was concerned not with trans-historical laws governing the universe but with some particular laws of society. This anti-Engels camp, so to speak, mainly tended to draw bold lines between Marx and Engels, …Read more
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    Karl Schmückle and Western Marxism
    Revolutionary Russia 31 (1): 67-85. 2018.
    Born in 1898 in South-West Germany, the son of a lumberjack, a student of Karl Korsch in Jena, a colleague of Georg Lukács in Moscow, a militant of the Communist Part of Germany (KPD), and later a member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (VKPB), Schmückle was a prominent Marx expert, a literary critic and an editor of the first Marx- Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA1). This article examines whether Schmückle can be called a Western Marxist. To this end, it first investigates the theoretic…Read more
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    The Concept in Crisis: Reading Capital Today (review)
    Contemporary Political Theory 1 1-4. 2018.