dictionary of marxism

>From: "Mario Candeias" <MIC@Candeias.de>

>dear collegues,
>
>- please circulate -
>
>the historical-critical dictionary of marxism is urgently looking for an
>author to sum up the marxist discussion on "social necessary labour"
>(gesellschaftlich notwendige arbeit). prof. frigga haug has written a short
>article concerning marx and the feminist perspective on that. what we need
>is the debate after marx up to the present days - just the most important
>and interesting points. the article should have about 1000-1500 words. the
>next volume will be published next summer, so the article should be ready on
>the 20th of december.
>
>
>please send your reply to hkwmred@zedat.fu-berlin.de or MIC@Candeias.de
>for more information consult our website www.hkwm.de
>
>kindest regards
>
>mario candeias
>hist.-crit. dictionary of marxism
>free university of berlin
>
>
>>From the foreword to the first volume:
>»The current historical constellation is both favorable and adverse for the
>project of a historical-critical dictionary of Marxism. The collapse of
>state Marxist censureship of reflecting the past is favorable. The archives
>are now open and the theories ownerless. The antihistorical clutch of the
>"victor of history" is adverse: it equals in many ways an erasure of social
>memory. The post-Communist situation thus imprints the topic headings of
>"historical" and "critical" with an emphatic relevance to the present-day.
>These headings address the critical (and self-critical) evaluation of
>historical experience on the one hand, and the scientific survey,
>development, and critical examination of an enormous theoretical corpus on
>the other. A historical-critical look into the labyrinthine "library" of
>Marxist knowledge  can help effect a curative return to one’s senses. The
>process of remembering with critical examination may even contribute to the
>dissolution of the blind compulsion to repeat.  ...
>Without social memory, experience cannot exist. A historical-critical
>dictionary in times of a "historical turning-point" (Peter Glotz) is
>significant in so far as it is a part of the process of remembering that
>mediates intellectual experiences. This intellectual experience is made up
>of  a historical-critical "quotation" not only of a sort which displays
>brilliant achievements but also one which exposes the theoretical emptiness
>of thought enamored of power.«
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