Volume Editors: Victor Strazzeri, Konstantin Baehrens, and Juha Koivisto
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.
Biographical Note
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.
Readership
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.
Table of Contents
About this Edition
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
