Karl Held (publicist)

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Karl Held (* 1944 ; † October 9, 2010 ) was a German communist and publicist. Together with Theo Ebel and Herbert Ludwig Fertl, he founded and led the Marxist group and later headed the quarterly magazine GegenStandpunkt as the responsible editor .

Life

Karl Held was in 1966, a. a. with Robert Kurz and Hans Helmut Hiebel , one of the founders of the SDS at the University of Erlangen . In 1968 he moved to the LMU Munich . After the dissolution of the SDS he was one of the leaders, thinkers and writers of the Marxist group, which formulated a radical criticism of capitalist society and radically criticized many other socialist views. In the 1970s he worked as an editor at Carl Hanser Verlag and as a translator. From 1992, Held was the editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine GegenStandpunkt and wrote specifically for the monthly magazine .

Reception of The Psychology of the Bourgeois Individual

Psychology of the Bourgeois Individual, 1981

His 1981 book on The Psychology of the Bourgeois Individual was hotly debated. When the Munich writer Rainald Goetz heard a lecture by Held on the subject, he enthusiastically and ironically toyed with the idea of ​​joining the “Marxist thought warriors” of the Marxist group. Ernst Jünger excerpted a passage from the book The Psychology of the Bourgeois Individual , which was about suicide, on February 12, 1981, approvingly for his diary, without noticing the criticism contained in the passage. The author belongs to a “neo-Marxist student association” that “keeps itself free from immediate actions” and only does “awareness work”. Jünger wondered why a Marxist had similar views on suicide as his own.

In the book, Held criticizes common psychology, from Freud's psychoanalysis to Skinner's behavioral psychology , as reactionary because it focuses on the unconscious, ignores political factors and denies the individual's free will, including the ability to act consciously.

"... the result of this work to anticipate: a particular of false consciousness practice of entirely free will is nothing other than a series of events in which the individuality is the commandments of the capital and its state adds . A denial of freedom, and certainly not the laboriously constructed power of the unconscious, is by no means required to make the success of domination and exploitation on the globe understandable. And the fact that the 'individual', who is so highly valued by all critical people, gives himself up for everything and puts up with much that his admirers detest, is less a reason for his admiration than for certain doubts about himself State of mind of his admirers: Understanding of the false consciousness is the complete opposite of knowing its reasons, its necessity. "

Publications (selection)

  • Rosa Luxemburg: Introduction to Political Economy. Edited and introduced by Karl Held. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1972. ISBN 3-499-45268-5
  • Communication Research - Science or Ideology? Materials for the Critique of a New Science. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1973. ISBN 978-3-446-11716-7
  • The bourgeois state (ed.). Results, Society for Printing and Publishing Scientific Literature, Munich 1979, unchanged. New edition 1999. ISBN 3-929211-03-3 ( online version )
  • The psychology of the bourgeois individual (ed.). Results, Society for Printing and Publishing Scientific Literature, Munich 1981. ISBN 3-929211-04-1 ( Lecture based on the book (PDF; 433 kB), audio document (MP3; 28.8 MB), Munich July 1980.)
  • Opinions differing on Poland. Results, Society for Printing and Publishing Scientific Literature, Munich 1982. ISBN 3-922935-03-6
  • Opinions differing on "rearmament": the West wants war. Results, Society for Printing and Publishing Scientific Literature, Munich 1983. ISBN 3-922935-16-8
  • with Theo Ebel: War and Peace. Political Economy of World Peace. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1983
  • GDR broken - Germany whole. A settlement with "real socialism" and the imperialism of the German nation. Results, Society for Printing and Publishing Scientific Literature, Munich 1989. ISBN 3-922935-31-1
  • The connection. A settlement with the new nation and its nationalism. Results, Society for Printing and Publishing Scientific Literature, Munich 1990. ISBN 3-922935-32-X
  • From the reform of “real socialism” to the destruction of the Soviet Union (ed.). Objektpunkt-Verlag, Munich 1992. ISBN 3-929211-00-9

Translations (selection)

  • Henri Lefebvre: Critique of Everyday Life. Outlines of a sociology of everyday life. Translated from the French by Burkhart Kroeber and Karl Held. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt 1991. ISBN 3-596-26635-1
  • Daniel Ellsberg: I ​​declare war. Vietnam, the mechanism of military escalation. Translated from the American by Karl Held. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1973. ISBN 3-446-11725-3
  • Stuart R. Schram: The Mao System. The writings of Mao Tse-tung. Analysis and development. Translated from the English by Karl Held. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1972. ISBN 3-446-11583-8
  • Pierre Jalee: The Latest Stage of Imperialism. Translated from the French by Karl Held. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1971. ISBN 3-446-11374-6
  • Milan Machovec: On the meaning of human life. Translated from the Czech by Karl Held. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg 1971
  • Bertrand de Jouvenel: Beyond the performance society. Elements of social foresight and planning. Translated from the French by Karl Held. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg 1970
  • Rudi Supek: Sociology and Socialism. Problems and Perspectives. Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Karl Held. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg 1970
  • Gajo Petrović: Revolutionary Practice. Yugoslav Marxism of the present. Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Karl Held. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg 1969

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://neoprene.blogsport.de/2010/10/19/karl-held-ist-gestorben/
  2. ^ Rainald Goetz: Crazy. Novel. Frankfurt 1986, p. 98ff
  3. ↑ Ernst Jünger, the Neo-Marxism and the Suicide Article in OSSIETZKY No. 15 / 16-2011
  4. ^ Karl Held: The psychology of the bourgeois individual . In: Marxist Group (Ed.): Results . tape 9 . Munich 1985, ISBN 978-3-929211-04-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Hero, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2010