Beat Ringger

Beat Ringger (* 1955 in Bern ) is a Swiss author . He writes books of political content and is a representative of a critical Marxist line.

Life

At the age of 19 Ringger joined the Trotskyist movement and was then active in left-green groups.

After graduating from high school , Ringger completed an apprenticeship as a primary school teacher , taught for three years at the upper level in the Canton of Zurich and then completed an apprenticeship as a machine mechanic. He worked for two years in a sheltered workshop for the disabled and then studied electrical engineering at what was then the Winterthur technical center . He then worked for ten years at IBM Switzerland as a systems engineer and seminar leader before joining the unions as a project manager. Until the summer of 2015 he was the central secretary of the VPOD . Ringger lives in Zurich and works as the executive secretary of the socially critical Swiss think tank Denknetz .

In 1994 he was part of the core of the new environmental organization umverkehR , which launched a popular initiative to halve motorized road traffic. Since 2014 he has been a member of the board of the Raus aus der Sackgasse RASA group, which launched a popular initiative to lift the quota regulations against migrants from EU countries.

Publications

Books

• The system change climate program . Publisher edition8, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-85990-367-8
• Edited with Ruth Daellenbach and Pascal Zwicky. Reclaim Democracy. Strengthening and developing democracy . Publisher edition8, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-85990-330-2
• Edited with Ruth Gurny and Kurt Seifert. Good age. A good long life society for everyone. Publisher edition8, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-85990-357-9
• Edited with Cédric Wermuth : MarxnoMarx. 33 Left on the question of how the work of Marx can be made fruitful today. Publisher edition8, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-85990-344-9
• Edited with Ruth Gurny and Ueli Tecklenburg: Dignity, unconditional. How the debate about an unconditional basic income can be made fruitful . Publisher edition8, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85990-273-2 .
• Edited with Hans Baumann: Correct taxes. How taxes can redistribute CHF 25 billion a year to the benefit of the population. Edition8 publishing house, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-85990-169-8 .
• Assume you! On the way to an open socialism. Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-89691-875-8 .
• With Ruth Gurny: The Great Reform. The creation of general employment insurance. Edition8 publisher, Zurich 2009
• As editor and co-author: The future of democracy. A post-capitalist project. Rotpunkt-Verlag, Zurich 2008

Selected articles and contributions

Individual work:

• The system change climate program. Online at www.denknetz.ch June 2019
• Who is changing the world? And with whom? Emancipation and Identity. In: Denknetz-Zeitung October 2017
• The crisis of the social investment function and the digital revolution. In: Denknetz yearbook 2017
• Benchmarks of a progressive regional policy. In: Denknetz yearbook 2016
• The neoliberal destruction of the res publicae. In: Denknetz yearbook 2015
• Critique of Critical Thinking. In: Denknetz yearbook 2014
• The sun of work. In: Ruth Gurny, Ueli Tecklenburg (Ed.): Work without bondage. Zurich 2013
• Environmental protection and capitalism. In: Denknetz yearbook 2011
• Socialism as presumptuous. In: Luxemburg / Journal of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation 2/2010
• The reduction in working hours is dead - long live the reduction in working hours. In: Denknetz yearbook 2010
• Turn Switzerland upside down. In: Denknetz yearbook 2009
• Socialism revisited. In: Lunapark21 5, spring 2009
• The mobility transition . A radical environmental movement is needed. In: Opposition No. 54, 1st half of 2008
• Chavismo and Democracy in Venezuela. In: Opposition No. 55 from the 2nd half of 2008
• US Health Care: Endless Horror? In: Denknetz-Jahrbuch 2005

In author collectives:

• Digital revolution. An introduction to key words (together with Martin Gallusser). In: Denknetz yearbook 2017
• Democracy as a necessity and a program (together with Roland Herzog and Pascal Zwicky). In: Denknetz yearbook 2015
• Neoliberal bureaucracy (together with Bernhard Walpen ). In: Denknetz yearbook 2015
• Care, productivity, emancipation: The care imperative (together with Hans Baumann). In: Denknetez yearbook 2013
• The crisis of the social investment function. In: Denknetz yearbook 2010
• On the too-big-to-fail problem: financial services as a pubic service. In: Denknetz yearbook 2010
• For Switzerland without aiding and abetting tax evasion. In: Denknetz yearbook 2009
• Securing old-age provision: model proposal for a total overhaul. In: Denknetz yearbook 2009
• Theses Good Work for Everyone: A Realistic and Necessary Goal. In: Denknetz-Jahrbuch 2006
• Theses for a European minimum wage policy. In: Denknetz-Jahrbuch 2005

Web links

• Literature by and about Beat Ringger in the German National Library
• Article in the WOZ series «Wirtschaft zum Glück»: A new investment agenda: How the pharmaceutical industry can be restructured (October 28, 2010) (PDF; 546 kB)
• Website of the socially critical Swiss think tank “Denknetz”