Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism

A Selection, Volume 2

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The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM) is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon, which in the 9 German-language volumes concluded so far has involved over 800 scholars from around the globe. Conceived by philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug in 1983, the first volume of the ongoing lexicon project was published in 1994. This second volume of selected articles in English translation offers readers a further sample of the HCDM’s wide scope of terms: besides Marxist concepts, approached from a plural standpoint and stressing feminist, ecological, and internationalist perspectives, it boasts entries on the histories of social movements, theoretical schools, as well as cultural, political, philosophical, and aesthetic debates.

Contributors are: Wolfram Adolphi, Jan Otto Andersson, Helmut Arnold, Konstantin Baehrens, Colin Barker, Theodor Bergmann, Stefan Bollinger, Ulrich Brand, Mario Candeias, Paresh Chattopadhyay, Dagmar Engelken, Sibylle Fischer, Georg Fülberth, Montserrat Galcerán, Stephen Gill, Werner Goldschmidt, Christoph Görg, Volker Gransow, Gerhard Hanappi, Donna Haraway, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frigga Haug, Ursula Huws, Peter Jehle, Susan Kippax, Hans Gustav Klaus, Juha Koivisto, Michael Krätke, Wolfgang Küttler, Mikko Lahtinen, Sven-Eric Liedman, Andrea Maihofer, Thomas Marxhausen, Claudia Opitz, Helmut Peitsch, Victor Rego Diaz, Antje Schmitt, Victor Strazzeri, Benno Teschke, Oliver Walkenhorst, Bastiaan Wielenga, Gunter Willing.

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Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Dr., Dr. h. c., is Professor of Philosophy (retired) at the Free University Berlin. He published many monographs, a. o. on Philosophy of Praxis, High-tech Capitalism, Plural Marxism. His Critique of Commodity Aesthetics appeared in English in 1986 (University of Minnesota Press).

Frigga Haug, Dr., Dr. h. c., is Professor of Sociology (retired) at Hamburg University. She published many monographs, a. o. on Marxism-Feminism and Rosa Luxemburg. She is the author of Female Sexualization (Verso, 1987) and Beyond female masochism: memory-work and politics (Verso, 1980).

Peter Jehle, Dr., is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Potsdam University. He is co-editor of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks in German and published monographs on Gramsci, Werner Krauss, and Cultural Hegemony in the French and Spanish Enlightenment.

Wolfgang Küttler (died in 2024), Dr. Dr., led the department Theory and Methodology of Historical Science at the Central Institute for History (Academy of Sciences, GDR). He published many monographs, a. o. on formation theory in the late Karl Marx and in Lenin, on the philosophy of history and methodology of historiography.

Oliver Walkenhorst, diploma in physics, worked as a scientist from 2002 to 2013 at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. From 2008 to 2021 he was an editorial board member of the journal Das Argument. Since 2007, he is an editorial board member, since 2013 coordinator, and since 2023 co-editor of the HKWM.
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List of Abbreviations and Scribal Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors

1 Agrarian Question
 Theodor Bergmann

2 Black Marxism
 Hans Gustav Klaus

3 Capital‑Editions
 Thomas Marxhausen

4 Class Struggle
 Colin Barker, Werner Goldschmidt and Wolfram Adolphi

5 Climate Politics
 Oliver Walkenhorst

6 Colonial Mode of Production
 Bastiaan Wielenga

7 Conjuncture, Politico-Historical
 Juha Koivisto and Mikko Lahtinen

8 Critique of Globalisation
 Ulrich Brand

9 Dependency Theory
 Jan Otto Andersson

10 Development
 Sven-Eric Liedman, Thomas Marxhausen and Wolfgang Fritz Haug

11 Disposable Time
 Volker Gransow, Gunter Willing and Frigga Haug

12 Division of Labour
 Frigga Haug

13 Eurocentrism
 Gunter Willing

14 Everyday
 Peter Jehle

15 Family Work, Domestic Labour, Housework
 Frigga Haug

16 Fetish Character of the Commodity
 Thomas Marxhausen

17 Free Trade
 Michael Krätke and Gunter Willing

18 Gender
 Donna Haraway and Andrea Maihofer

19 Geopolitics
 Benno Teschke

20 German Wretchedness, German Misery
 Helmut Peitsch

21 Haitian Revolution
 Sibylle Fischer

22 Hegemonic Apparatus
 Stefan Bollinger and Juha Koivisto

23 Humanity
 Wolfram Adolphi and Victor Strazzeri

24 Immaterial Labour
 Wolfgang Fritz Haug

25 International Women’s Day
 Victor Rego Diaz and Antje Schmitt

26 International Relations
 Stephen Gill

27 Labour Movement
 Georg Fülberth

28 Land Reform
 Helmut Arnold

29 Materialise / Materialisation
 Wolfgang Fritz Haug

30 Materialism, Practical-Dialectical
 Wolfgang Fritz Haug

31 Memory Work, Effort of Remembering
 Susan Kippax

32 Primary Valorisation
 Christoph Görg

33 Putting Out, Homeworking, Outwork / Telework
 Ursula Huws and Mario Candeias

34 Remembrance
 Frigga Haug

35 Social Formation
 Wolfgang Küttler

36 Socially Necessary Labour / Labour Time
 Frigga Haug and Paresh Chattopadhyay

37 Trade
 Mario Candeias and Gerhard Hanappi

38 Witch
 Frigga Haug, Dagmar Engelken and Montserrat Galcerán

39 Witch Hunt
 Claudia Opitz

References to the Original Publications
Index of Names
The dictionary is a resource for academics, scholars, students, as well as for members of trade unions, political parties, educational institutions and social movement organisations.
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