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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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