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You may take a look at the author's personal page: Kontakt. Sample of his publications, with many downloads: Download. Basic and important literature: Philosophie der Praxis.  Some pages contain resources in english, for example Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcuse, Karl Marx etc. - pay attention to the icon  ! Of main importance is the very serious research concerning an alternative economic system, here called social economy as system alternative, in german Sozialwirtschaft als Systemalternative. For networking and research on this subjekt look at the tableau for systemic transformacion research.
     

This initiative intends to elaborate an up-to-date political philosophy, which refers to the novum of Karl Marx ideas, unites the best items of the critical and utopian inspired theory and puts the traditional  philosophy of praxis into concrete terms. Therefore I call it a philosophy and science of social praxis, or shortly a concrete philosophy of praxis [ Konkrete Praxisphilosophie ]. This standpoint or paradigm claims to exceed both the so called critical theory and the mere traditional or dogmatic marxism.

To make clear the difference to pragmatism too and assure the roots, I use the original term praxis in its utmost philosophical and just as scientific meaning and do not like to speak about a philosophy of practice, though someone may use practice in the meaning of praxis. So you will find the 8th of Marx' theses on Feuerbach in this translation: 'All social life is essentially practical. All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.'

With the IPkW-Website ist intended to construct an internet platform, which samples and presents theoretical resources, offers a forum for praxis-centered works and interests and chances to contact. In this way the rich inheritance of the European thinking line of a philosophy of praxis can be vitalised and worked out. The resource spectrum extends from Feuerbach, Hegel und Karl Marx over Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcuse up to Ernst Bloch, the Yugoslavian Praxis Group, the French philosopher Henri Lefebvre and reaches into current political philosophy, including not at least classical authors as G.H. Mead and modern thinkers as Pierre Bourdieu.

Outgoing from this the concrete philosophy of praxis tries to elaborate the epistemological and methodological basics for concrete analysis and research of social praxis and may start projects on this. But the main point in present time is to take up again creative research on political economy, the unfinished project of Marx' capital theory, but now with primary interest about a positive concept of a new mode of reproduction and social association. In the quite new concept of a social economy formation as system alternative, so the actual hypothesis, can be found the real answer to capital economy and thus the response to the striking  problems and the crises of capitalism in the time of neoliberal globalization.

To intensify networking and research about a concrete new economy system, in 2009 the domain www.socioeconomy.net was created and linked to www.praxisphilosophie.de The basic idea: The failure of the so called real-socialism experiments grounds substantially in the fact, that it reached neither theoretically nor practically a real new coast. On the other side, the modern social movements do not know a trustworthy alternative to the challenges and destruction forces of the dominating capitalistic formation and its globalization tendency. Here concrete praxis philosophy ought to develope an contribute concepts for well grounded economic and social politics in the perspective of a social transformation, to contribute peoples struggle for a better life.
    

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This interview with German social scientist Horst Müller on cancer economics, computer socialism, Hugo Chávez, public private partnerships, and Heidegger, was originally published one year ago, on October 7, 2007. Despite the fact that it is not a recently published text we decided to bring it to your attention for the general and particular issues touched are thought provoking and have not at all lost their topicality. To the contrary, and as recent economic, political, social, and natural developments underscore, they are rather red-hot issues that concern us not only in Venezuela but on a planetary scale.  Tlaxcala, Merida/Venezuela
  

Müller, Horst: Historical barriers of capital economy and suggestions about alternatives. English version of:  Historische Schranken der Kapitalwirtschaft und konkrete Alternative. S. 49-56 in: Zeitschrift Sozialismus, Nr. 2/2007. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg. See IPkW-Onlinetext.

"If the material conditions of production and the corresponding relations of circulation for a classless society do not already exist in a latent state, all attempts at exploding the society would be Don Quixotism" (Marx). Along these lines Horst Müller tries to substantiate a post-capitalistic perspective of transformation. The contribution to the present discussion about alternatives of reforms and drafts of socialism for the 21^st century oversteps the horizon of leftwing-keynesian economy and thinks ahead Marx`s analysis of capitalism. The definitly new idea of "Socio-Economy as alternative to Capital Economy" is more worked out in:

Müller, Horst: Sozialwirtschaft als Systemalternative, S. 254-305 in: Ders. (Hg.), Das PRAXIS-Konzept im Zentrum gesellschaftskritischer Wissenschaft. BoD-Verlag, Norderstedt 2005. ISBN 3-8334-3737-5. See IPkW-Onlinetext.
  

Of special interest may be the author's contribution to the Attac-Academy in summer 2009: Karl Marx und Immanuel Wallerstein - Utopistische Analysen zu den Krisen und Alternativen des 21. Jahrhunderts. From PRAXIS-medien you can download the .mp3 (German, ca. 70 min. / 8,3 MB ).
     

Schmied-Kowarzik, Wolfdietrich: Karl Marx as a Philosopher of Human Emancipation. Here as IPkW-Onlinetext.

Ollmann, Bertell / Seve, Lucien: Dialectices aufjourd’hui. Verlag Syllepse 2007.
  

Praxis Group: The Praxis Group in Yugoslavia. Page on the Marxists International Archive (MIA).

Antonio Gramsci: Gramsci at the New York Marxist School. Page of the International Gramsci Society.

Henri Lefebvre: Henri Lefebvre Page. Link to the Website of D. Phil. Rob Shields.

Herbert Marcuse: Books, Articles and Reviews about Herbert Marcuse. Comprehensive list compiled on Harold's UCSB homepage
          

Labriola, Antonio: History, Philosophy of History, Sociology and Historical Materialism. 1902/03 Online.

Marx, Karl: Theses on Feuerbach, in: MEW 3. Here from MarxistsOrg.

Marcuse, Herbert: Philosophy and Critical Theory, in: Negations: Essays in Critical Theory. Boston: Beacon Press, 1968. See Excerpt.