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Reflexive Materialism: The Philosophy of Hans Heinz Holz as Foundation of Materialist Dialectics

Hans Heinz Holz (1927–2011) was one of the most outstanding and eminent Marxist philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. As he described in interviews shortly before his death in February 2011, his involvement in the resistance against National Socialism as a high school student marked the beginning of his intellectual development.[1] Incarcerated

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Critical Apologetics: On Rainer Forst’s Noumenal Power

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Call for Papers: Eastern Marxisms – A Special Issue of Historical Materialism

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The Everyday Causes and Contradictions of Trumpism

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The Constitution of Socialism. A World without Capital

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