A few remarks on Michael Heinrich’s concept of value and labour Norbert Trenkle / 2000 The Heinrich-Trenkle debate in Streifzüge has now gone through four rounds and is in danger of turning i…

The structural madness in commodity-producing modernity Robert Kurz / 2 July 2003 1. The fetishism of money Money is the omnipresent fluid of modernity, the universal lubricant of society, the all-…

Robert Kurz / January 2003 Even if the guardians of the ruling world order and their ideologues refuse to acknowledge it: ever more countries are being ruined and decivilised in the course of capit…

An attack on Iraq is not about the regime of Saddam Hussein, but about the contradictions of globalisation Robert Kurz / November 2002 The US military attack on Iraq appears to be a done deal. Pres…

Why Islamism cannot be explained by religion Norbert Trenkle / 2015 As always after an Islamist terrorist attack, the public debate following the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo and the Je…

Marcos Barreira / June 2024 The claim that the critique of value limits its analysis of capitalism to the first chapters of Capital is false. It only “sticks” in certain circles because…

Ernst Lohoff / 2023 The debate within the left over China reveals far more about the state of the left in Germany than it does about the development of Chinese society and its position in the commo…

Marcos Barreira / October 2024 « In our time, however, it is Robert Kurz who has most powerfully drawn the ultimate conclusions from this dialectical situation in his stunning book, Der Kollaps der…

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