Dieter Klein (economist)

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Dieter Klein

Dieter Klein (born October 15, 1931 in Berlin ) is a German Marxist economist and freelancer as well as a member of the board of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin.

Life

Dieter Klein's parents were commercial employees. Because of his Jewish descent, he was expelled from high school under the Nazi regime and then attended a one-class village school. After the end of the Second World War , he passed the Abitur in 1951.

Klein completed a degree in economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1951 to 1955 . In 1961 he received his doctorate on the subject of the integration of finance capital in Western Europe , in 1964 he completed his habilitation on planning and strategic action in the EEC and was appointed to the chair of Political Economy of Capitalism . From 1964 to 1977 he was director of the Institute for Political Economy at the economics faculty at Humboldt University. In the institute, the sociology and demography departments could be developed, which belonged to the germ cells of these disciplines in the GDR . After that he was Vice Rector for Social Sciences at Humboldt University until 1990 . In the 1980s, Klein was primarily responsible for setting up a multidisciplinary university peace research program at the Humboldt University and for exchanging lecture cycles with the Hamburg Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy . In 1983 he became a member of the SED district leadership in East Berlin.

From February 1990 to July 1991 he was head of the institute for interdisciplinary research on civilization, which emerged from the work context of those involved in the critical reform project, Modern Socialism . From 1990 to 1997 he held a professorship in the Chair of Economic Fundamentals of Politics at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt University.

Dieter Klein is active in the Solidarity Modern Institute and in the Willy Brandt Circle . He is chairman of the Michael Schumann Foundation , named after the former PDS politician Michael Schumann . Dieter Klein was actively involved in the process of transition from the SED to the PDS and participated in the program commissions of the PDS and the party Die Linke .

Publications (selection)

  • Future or end of capitalism? A critical discourse analysis in turbulent times , Hamburg: VSA Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-89965-888-0 .
  • Split power elites. Lost ability to transform or renaissance of a New Deal? , Hamburg: VSA Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-89965-695-4 .
  • Tomorrow dances in today. Transformation in and beyond capitalism , Hamburg: VSA Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-89965-568-1 (as PDF ; 1400 kB)
  • Contradictions in the Brandenburg energy transition. Horizons of socio-ecological transformation , papers from the rls. 2012 (as PDF ; 373 kB)
  • A multidimensional crisis and its security implications. In: The Great Depression and Peace. Contributions to the 14th Dresden Symposium for a Global Peace Order on November 21, 2009. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers , Dresden 2010, issue 97, pp. 4–27. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-339717
  • A second great transformation and the left. Controversy series of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation 1/2010 (as PDF ; 348 kB)
  • Crisis capitalism. Where will it go if it goes on like this , Berlin; Karl Dietz Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02165-8 (as PDF ; 1300 kB)
  • World society - shaped by financial market capitalism , In: Egon Bahr (Hrsg.): Weltgesellschaft. A project from the left! Berlin 2008.
  • Billionaires - Empty Cash. The mysterious whereabouts of rising wealth , Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3-320-02081-1 .
  • Editor and author: Living instead of being lived. Self-determination and social security. Future report of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 2004, ISBN 3-320-02935-5 .
  • Democratic socialism as a transformative project and: Everyday steps and visions and: About an alternative way of dealing with the immense presence of property that has been declared dead . In: Michael Brie / Michael Chrapa / Dieter Klein (eds.): Socialism as a daily task , Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 2003, ISBN 3-320-02933-9 .
  • Why does the future belong to socialism? Sociopolitical questions of our time . State Secretariat for West German Issues (GDR). Berlin 1969
  • Ed. And author: Reformalternativen. Socially ecological civil , Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-320-01981-3 .
  • Co-editor and author: On the program of the party of democratic socialism. A commentary , Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 1997, ISBN 3-320-01932-5 .
  • Michael Brie and Dieter Klein: The Angel of History. Liberating experiences of defeat , Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 1993.
  • Ko-Ed. and author: Between the Times. A century says goodbye , VSA Verlag, Hamburg, 1992.
  • Ko-Ed. and author: Change to the modern age? , VSA Verlag, Hamburg, 1991.
  • Chances for a Peaceful Capitalism , Dietz Verlag, Berlin: 1988.
  • Ed. And author: Political Economy of Capitalism. Textbook Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 1986.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A democratic GDR? The project "Modern Socialism". In: APuZ 11/2010. Federal Agency for Political Education , March 4, 2010, accessed on July 10, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist economist and SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin