Roswitha Scholz

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Roswitha Scholz (* 1959 ) is a German journalist and book author who lives in Nuremberg. She is a member of the editorial team of the value-critical magazine EXIT! . In 1992 she published the theorem of value separation.

Roswitha Scholz was the wife of the author Robert Kurz, who died in 2012 .

Theorem of the separation of values

In 1992 Roswitha Scholz published the theorem of value separation , a feminist continuation of value criticism. It says that in a society dominated by economic value , all impulses and relationships that cannot be grasped in terms of value but are nevertheless necessary for reproduction are split off from the seemingly relevant "universe" and "delegated to women".

"Everything that does not work out in the abstract form of sensual content, but still remains a prerequisite for social reproduction, is delegated to the woman (sensuality, emotionality, etc.)."

- Roswitha Scholz

In the self-presentation of the group EXIT! it says similarly:

"[...] All moments of social reproduction , personal life and social relationships that do not merge into the abstract logic of value or can only reluctantly and with the loss of their very own character be classified into the abstract logic of value (child care , "Housework", "love and relationship work", socio-psychological buffer functions, etc.), were split off from the economic-political universe and historically defined as "female". "

- With Marx beyond Marx: The theoretical project of the group "EXIT!"

According to Robert Kurz, the “labor movement Marxism” has also taken over this separation of values, “inherited” from Protestantism and the Enlightenment. ”According to Kurz, it has the same origin as the concept of“ abstract work ”, that of the“ goods producer ”criticized by value criticism System "is the basis. Scholz and Kurz thus opposed the theory, advocated by Lenin and Mao Zedong , which was widespread in the labor movement , that there is one main contradiction , that between capitalists and the working class, and various secondary contradictions, including that between male rule and oppressed women.

Works

  • The gender of capitalism. Feminist Theory and the Postmodern Metamorphosis of Patriarchy . Horlemann, B, Unkel 2000, ISBN 3-89502-100-8 .
  • Differences of crisis - crisis of differences. The new social criticism in the global age and the connection between "race", class, gender and postmodern individualization . Horlemann, B., Unkel 2005, ISBN 3-89502-195-4 .
  • The nightmare of freedom. Perspectives on radical social criticism. Essays, reviews, polemics . (with Robert Kurz and Jörg Ulrich). Ulmer Manuscripts, Blaubeuren 2005, ISBN 3-934869-38-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claus Peter Ortlieb : A foreword in memory of Robert Kurz. in: Robert Kurz: The Death of Capitalism ; LAIKA-Verlag , Hamburg 2013, pp. 9-17, ISBN 978-3-94228-159-1 , p. 14
  2. ^ Krisis 12 (1992) , p. 23, last accessed on July 1, 2019
  3. ↑ From EXIT! Self-presentation , last accessed on July 1, 2019
  4. ↑ Robert Kurz: Gray is the golden tree of life and green is the theory . in: EXIT! 4 (2007), pp. 15-106, ISBN 978-3-89502-230-2 , p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Roswitha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959