Bill Quimby wrote:
> A few words on who Ingo Elbe is, bitte? His politics? His position? > Other works? He literally "wrote the book" on the German "Neue Marx-Lektüre". OK, so you ask, what's the "NML"? Well, that's why I'm taking the time to translate this essay, but in a nutshell, it's form-critique in the tradition of the early Soviet scholars I.I. Rubin and Evgeny Paschukanis, basically an approach to Marx's work that emphasizes the aspects of it that are a critique of reified forms (i.e. the value-form as the form of human labor in capitalism, the state-form as the form of political power, etc.) There are similar thinkers in the English-speaking world: Christopher Arthur, Tony Smith, Geert Reuten, Robert Albritton, Moishe Postone, Werner Bonefeld. In Germany the tradition includes Hans-Georg Backhaus, Helmut Reichelt, Michael Heinrich, Dieter Wolf, also the participants of the "state derivation" debate, like Joachim Hirsch, or Heide Gerstenberger. Some intrepid soul (not me) actually bothered to create a Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Marx-Lekt%C3%BCre But I think it's rather thin, which is why I'm translating Ingo's essay.
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