Michael R. Krätke (born 1950) was professor for political economy at Lancaster University, and editor of the German scholarly journal . Krätke was working on the history of

Marxism Marxism is a left-wing to far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict and a dialectical ...

since the 1990s He developed a periodization of Marxist intellectual history and identified four stages: (1) from 1842 until Marx’ death in 1883, (2) "classical marxism" from 1883 until

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, (3) the third stage from the Russian Revolution into the 1960s, (4) the last stage of a socioscientific Marxism following the Marx-Renaissance of the 1960s. He is a member of the scientific advisory council to the German chapter of

attac The Association pour la Taxation des Transactions financières et pour l'Action Citoyenne (''Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions and Citizen's Action'', ATTAC) is an activist organisation originally created to promote the e ...

Writings

Selected works

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Articles

* Das Marx-Engels-Problem. Warum Engels das Marxsche „Kapital“ nicht verfälscht hat. In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2006, Berlin 2007, S. 142–170. * Die Mythen der Globalisierung. In: Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung, December 2002.

References

External links

website
of Michael Krätke at Lancaster University * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kratke, Michael R. Living people German political scientists 1950 births