Michael Brie

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Michael Brie (born March 24, 1954 in Schwerin ) is a German philosopher . He is the chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation . His work focuses on the theory and history of socialism and communism .

Life

Michael Brie is the son of the GDR diplomat Horst Brie and his wife Sonja and brother of André Brie . Michael Brie studied philosophy in Berlin and Leningrad and became a member of the SED in 1974 . In 1988 he became a lecturer in historical materialism at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In September 1990 he became professor of social philosophy there, despite violent protests from university staff . When he disclosed his work as an unofficial employee for the Ministry for State Security of the GDR , he was dismissed and in 1994 a termination agreement was concluded.

Brie then worked as a visiting researcher in the working group Transformation Processes in the New Federal States of the Max Planck Society at the Humboldt University and with the President of the Social Research Center in Berlin. From 1997 to 1999 he was a research associate at the Society for Social Science Research and Publishing mbH Berlin. He has been with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation since 1999 and was head of the Political Analysis department and director of the Institute for Social Analysis of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation from 2008 to 2013. Scientifically, he is a. a. with the socio-ecological transformation of bourgeois capitalist societies and strategic problems of the left.

From December 1989 to January 1990 Brie was a member of the party executive of the SED-PDS as well as various program commissions of the PDS / Die Linke .

Brie was a member of the board of trustees of the Solidarity Modern Institute and is a member of Attac's scientific advisory board . He has also been a member of the Leibniz Society for Science in Berlin since 2013 .

Publications (selection)

  • Becoming a socialist. Friedrich Engels in Manchester and Barmen 1842–1845 , Rosa Luxemburg Foundation 2020 ( free download ).
  • with Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski (ed.): Struggle for justice in ideological dialogue. In memory of the Christian, socialist and anti-fascist Emil Fuchs . (= Treatises of the Leibniz Society of Sciences. Volume 52). trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2019.
  • Rediscover Rosa Luxemburg. A light blue ribbon to »Freedom for the Enemy! Democracy and Socialism «. Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-89965-886-6 .
  • Rediscover Lenin. The light blue ribbon on the dialectic of revolution & metaphysics of rule. Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-89965-734-0 .
  • as publisher: Transforming capitalism with real utopias? Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89965-648-0 :
  • Rediscover Polanyi. The light blue ribbon for a possible dialogue between Nancy Fraser and Karl Polanyi . Hamburg 2015.
  • The unsolved problem of the century: the democratization of the economy. In: Year Book for Research on the History of the Labor Movement . Issue I / 2015.
  • How Socialism Became Practical - Robert Owen ?? Reformer, visionary, experimenter . Philosophical conversation booklet 40. Helle Panke. Berlin, 2014
  • Forward to the past? Wolfgang Streecks failed to rediscover the Marxist critique of capitalism. In: Sheets for German and international politics. 7/2013, pp. 59-70. (blaetter.de)
  • The communist foundations and the human rights horizon in capitalist modernity - The experiments of Robert Owen. In: Michael Brie, Mario Candeias : Transformation in Capitalism and Beyond It . RLS Paper, 2012, pp. 101–118 (as (PDF) ; 11600 kB)
  • Free public transport instead of a “scrapping bonus”! Positions of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation 8/2009 (as (PDF) ; 149 kB)
  • with Christoph Spehr : What is socialism . (= Controversy of the RLS. 1/2008). (as (PDF) ; 955 kB)
  • The left - what can it want. Politics under the conditions of financial market capitalism . Supplement to the journal Socialism. Issue 3/2006.
  • The funny class of service. The political joke in late state socialism. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2004 (as (PDF) ; 987 kB)
  • Order out of anarchy. Case study on the emergence of an authoritarian democracy in the Russian provincial region of Saratov. Berlin 2004.
  • with Dieter Klein : The Angel of History. Liberating experiences of defeat. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-320-01820-5 .
  • Who is the owner in socialism. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1990.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Launch pad for spies . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1991 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Transforming capitalism with real utopias? - VSA publishing house
  3. ↑ Double transformation - strategic challenges for the left
  4. ↑ Members of the Scientific Advisory Board , as of July 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Brie, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, Stasi-IM
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin