Heinz Jung

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Heinz Jung (born January 22, 1935 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 19, 1996 ) was a German Marxist sociologist .

Life

Heinz Jung was born into a communist working-class family and became a member of the KPD himself at the age of 14 . His mother sent him to the Wickersdorf Free School Community . After passing high school, he studied economics at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig in 1953 and from 1954 at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Here he completed his studies with a diploma. In Leipzig he was one of Kurt Braunreuther's students and in Berlin with Hans Wagnerand Kurt Braunreuther. In 1957 he went back to the Federal Republic. Since his diploma was not recognized here, he worked as an unskilled worker in the metal industry. Because of his work for the banned KPD, he was sentenced to one year probation. In 1963 he was one of the co-founders of the magazine Marxistische Blätter and from 1968 worked in the DKP . In addition to Josef Schleifstein , Jung was initially deputy head of the Institute for Marxist Studies and Research (IMSF) from 1968, and later, until 1989, its head. He was co-editor of the Marxist Studies Yearbook of the IMSF (1978-1989). In 1989 he founded the magazine Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Renewal . In 1986 he did his doctorate at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR with the thesis: Deformed Vergesellschaftung. On the sociology of state monopoly capitalism in the FRG . Heinz Jung has published numerous books and articles on economic and sociological topics. In the state elections in Hesse in 1983 , he ran for the DKP in the constituency of Hochtaunus II .

The "Dr. Heinz Jung Foundation" is named after him and promotes "research projects and scientific work in the further development of the philosophical findings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels".

Fonts

  • with Josef Schleifstein / Kurt Steinhaus (editor): The September Strikes 1969. Presentation - analysis - documentation of the strike in the steel industry, in mining, in the metalworking industry and other economic sectors. Frankfurt am Main 1969 (contributions from IMSF 1).
  • The 18th meeting of the Federation of German Employers' Associations (BDA) from May 8th to 10th, 1969 in Baden-Baden. Frankfurt am Main 1969 (information reports from IMSF 1).
  • with Kurt Steinhaus : The CDU / CSU business day from June 26th to 27th, 1969 in Bonn. Frankfurt am Main 1969 (information reports from IMSF 2).
  • with Hans Schäfer (Hrsg.): Manual for workers and employees for operational and social practice. Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1970 (3rd edition 1973).
  • with Johannes Henrich von Heiseler, Josef Schleifstein, Kurt Steinhaus (editors): Co-determination as a fighting task. Basics - possibilities - direction. A theoretical, ideological and empirical study on the question of co-determination in the Federal Republic. Frankfurt am Main 1971 (contributions from IMSF 2).
  • with Jörg Goldberg : The Economic Crisis in the Federal Republic of Germany 1974–1976. Causes - Effects - Arguments. Marxist sheets publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1976.
  • with Jörg Goldberg, Bernd Günther: unemployment. Causes, development, alternatives. Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1977 (Marxismus aktuell 116).
  • with Josef Schleifstein: The theory of state monopoly capitalism and its critics in the Federal Republic of Germany. Marxist sheets publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1978.
  • Science - national culture - ideological class struggle. The contribution of the IMSF. In: 10 years of IMSF. Marxist Research for the Labor Movement. IMSF, Frankfurt am Main 1978, pp. 13-19.
  • The revolutionary subject in Marx's theory and today . In: IMSF (ed.): Marx is present. Materials on the Karl Marx Year 1983 . Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-88012-686-0 , pp. 15–38.
  • with Fritz Krause: The stamocap republic of the flicks. Verlag Marxistische Blätter, Frankfurt am Main 1985 (Marxismus aktuell 193).
  • Deformed socialization. On the sociology of state monopoly capitalism in the FRG. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-05-000032-5 .
  • with Jörg Huffschmid : Reform alternative . A Marxist plea, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 978-3-88807-056-3
  • Farewell to a reality. On the defeat of socialism and the departure of the GDR. A political diary - summer 1989 to autumn 1990. IMSF, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-88807-092-9 .

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  1. ↑ Dr. Heinz Jung Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Marxist sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1996