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You may take a look at the author's personal page: Kontakt. Sample of his publications: Publikationen und Downloads. Basic and important literature: Philosophie der Praxis. 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.
     

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 practice into concrete terms. Therefore I call it a philosophy and science of social practice, or shortly a concrete philosophy of practice [ 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 term practice in its original, utmost philosophical and scientific meaning as praxis. So you may understand the 8th of Marx' theses on Feuerbach: '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 practice-centered works and interests and chances to contact. In this way the rich inheritance of the European thinking line of a philosophy of practice can be vitalised and worked out as a modern paradigm of social sciences. 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 and Immanuel Wallerstein.

Outgoing from this the concrete philosophy of practice tries to elaborate the epistemological and methodological basics for concrete analysis and research of social practice 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.

In this situation the concrete philosophy of practice ought to contribute for well grounded economic and social politics in the perspective of a social transformation, to support peoples struggle for a better life.
    

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  Horst Müller

This interview on cancer economics, computer socialism, Hugo Chávez, public private partnerships, and Heidegger, was originally published 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.  
  

Historical barriers of capital economy and suggestions about alternatives. English version of:  Horst Müller, 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. This definitly new idea of "Socio-Economy as alternative to Capital Economy" will step by step be more worked out.
 

Le Concept de Praxis Chez Karl Marx, Ernst Bloch et Pierre Bourdieu
Symposium Philosophie - Ecologie - Praxis. Autour d'Arno Münster. En allemand, avec traduction simultanee in Amiens/Frankreich am 21. April 2010. IPkW-Onlinetext (Avec Links a 4 Videos en YouTube)
      

Critical theory: Critical Theory on the web. Website compiled by Dr. Malinda S. Smith, University of Alberta

Ralph Dumain: The philosophy of theory and practice: Selected bibliography. Autodidactproject Online

Helmut Fleischer: Marxism and History. New York, Harper & Row, 1973. [ Marxismus und Geschichte. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 1969. 6. Auflage 1977. Übersetzungen ins Spanische, Italienische, Englische, Portugiesische, u.a.]

Giovanni Gentile: The Philosophy of Praxis. Online

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

Study group on Gramsci's Prison Notebooks: Labriola as forerunner of Gramsci. Excerpts from and comments on Antonio Labriola: Socialism and Philosophy. Page der Study Group in Brisbane. Posted on July 3, 2001.

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

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

Herbert Marcuse: On the Topicality of Selected Aspects of Herbert Marcuse's Works. Page of the Herbert Marcuse Association.

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

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

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

Vranicki, Predrag: On the problem of practice. Praxis, 1965,1, pp. 41-48. Here as IPkW-Onlinetext

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

China Papers: Rethink the Practice Concept of Marxist Philosophy. China Papers Online. [ On Marxist Philosophy Practice, The Indication of Marxist Philosophy Concept in China, Marxist Concept of Practice, Exchanges, Developing Marxist Philosophy Through Strugglement and Practice, Modernity and the Practice Diversion of Marxist Philosoph ]