Michael R. Krätke

Michael R. Krätke 2018

Michael R. Krätke (* 1949 in Lüneburg ) is a German political scientist. He studied political science, sociology and economics at the Free University of Berlin, was professor for political economy at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, is professor for political economy at Lancaster University , co-editor of spw - magazine for socialist politics and economy , on the scientific advisory board of Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode, on the scientific advisory board of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (since 2007), and on the scientific advisory board of Attac Germany. and longtime union member.

In the mid-1990s, Krätke dealt with the history of Marxism . He distinguished four phases: (1) the phase from 1842 to the year of Marx's death in 1883, (2) the phase of "classical Marxism" from 1883 to the First World War , (3) the phase from the October Revolution to the end of the 1960s , (4) the contemporary phase of social-scientific Marxism following the Marx renaissance of the 1960s.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• with Veit-Michael Bader a. a., Crisis and Capitalism in Marx , 2 vols., Frankfurt a. M. 1975
• with Volker Gransow : Viktor Agartz, Trade Unions and Economic Policy (= series of publications on trade union policy studies. Vol. 12). Verlag Die Arbeitswelt, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-88114-217-7 .
• Criticism of public finances. On the political economy of the tax state. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-87975-247-8 .
• with Frigga Haug (ed.): Materials for the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism. Argument Verlag, Hamburg 1996.
• Economy without work - work without economy? Development tendencies of capitalism and political interventions (= critical interventions. Vol. 1). Offizin, Hannover 1997, ISBN 3-930345-08-0 .
• with Georg Fülberth : Nine questions about capitalism (= Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Texts. Vol. 36). Dietz, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-320-02102-3 .
• Democracy and global economic crisis (= contradiction. Vol. 28, Issue 55, ISSN  1420-0945 ). Funding Association Contradiction, Zurich 2008.
• Critique of Political Economy Today. Contemporary Marx . Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-89965-732-6 .
• Friedrich Engels or: How a Cotton Lord Invented Marxism . Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-320-02368-3 .

items

• All of Marx. In: WOZ Die Wochenzeitung , from August 3, 2006.
• The Marx-Engels problem. Why Engels did not falsify Marx's “capital”. In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch . 2006, pp. 142-170.
• The myths of globalization. In: Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Renewal . Vol. 52, December 2002, ISSN  2192-8207 , pp. 16-33.
• Marx and world history . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 2014/15. Argument, Hamburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-86754-682-9 , pp. 133–177.

literature

• Winfried Schwarz: Comments on Krätke's “Zeitgenosse Marx” . In: Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Renewal . No. 111, September 2017, pp. 165–171. ISSN  0940-0648

Web links

• Website (Engl.) By Michael Krätke on the homepage of Lancaster University
• About utopias such as equilibrism, economic democracy and market socialism - Interview with Michael Krätke on Swiss Radio DRS on March 20, 2010 (from 7:04 p.m.)
• Capitalism and corruption. On the political economy of fraud , in: ak - analyze & kritik, No. 513 from January 19, 2007
• The Marx-Engels problem: why Engels did not falsify Marx's “capital”.
• Literature by and about Michael R. Krätke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael R. Krätke's website at academia.edu
• Michael R. Krätke's website at linksnet.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Members of the scientific advisory board. In: Attac. Retrieved July 13, 2018 . 
2. ↑ See Michael Krätke: Marxism as social science. In: Frigga Haug , Michael Krätke (Ed.): Materials for the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism. For Wolfgang Fritz Haug on his 60th birthday. Argument, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-88619-396-9 , pp. 69-122.