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Das übliche, staatlich, medial und „wissenschaftlich“ gestützte DDR-Verteufeln führt dazu, dass gleichzeitig eine Vielzahl bedeutender künstlerischer Leistungen mit in die Verdrängung gerissen werden. Das betrifft auch einen Text, der gerade heute wieder zu Gehör gebracht werden sollte.
Die Grundlage für diesen Text wurde vor mehr als 200 Jahren gelegt – von Ludwig van Beethoven. Weiterlesen
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Aujourd’hui, alors que « l’Occident » dirigé par les États-Unis accepte de détruire la planète entière pour préserver son hégémonie « fondée sur des règles », il est plus que jamais nécessaire de trouver des alternatives à la soif irresponsable de profit et de pouvoir, au bellicisme et à la hostilité envers la vie.
Le socialisme, qui a fait ses preuves dans plusieurs pays, au moins dans une certaine mesure, se présentait comme une telle alternative. Son principal fondement théorique était la doctrine de Karl Marx (1818-1883) et Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), souvent présentée de manière déformée dans le cadre du « marxisme-léninisme » . Le « socialisme réel » a été très tôt discrédité, notamment par la terreur d’État sous Staline, puis sous Mao Tsé-Toung et Pol Pot, avant de s’effondrer vers 1990. Depuis lors, ces concepts sont généralement considérés comme définitivement discrédités et le capitalisme comme sans alternative. Weiterlesen
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Meine These ist: Die momentane Schwäche der deutschen Friedensbewegung hängt auch zusammen mit einer verzerrten Sicht auf die DDR.
Um das zu erklären, ist ein Rückblick vonnöten. Weiterlesen
Anfang November 2025 ist Philipp von Beckers Buch „Der neue Glaube an die Unsterblichkeit“ in dritter, verbesserter und um ein Vorwort erweiterter Auflage erschienen. Schon als es 2015 erstmals veröffentlicht wurde, betraf es eine brisante, hochproblematische gesellschaftlich-politisch-wissenschaftliche Entwicklung. In den vergangenen 10 Jahren ist diese Entwicklung nahezu explodiert. Weiterlesen
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I apologize for any errors and inaccuracies that are sure to occur.
Please use the original German text, written in 2024, for comparison:
https://andreas-peglau-psychoanalyse.de/menschen-als-marionetten-wie-marx-und-engels-die-reale-psyche-in-ihrer-lehre-verdraengten/).
A.P.
Today, as the US-led „West“ accepts the destruction of the entire planet in order to maintain its „rules-based“ hegemony, there is a greater need than ever to find alternatives to irresponsible greed for profit and power, warmongering and hostility towards life.
Socialism, which had been tried out in practice, at least to some extent, in several countries, was seen as such an alternative. Its most important theoretical starting point was the teachings of Karl Marx (1818–1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), which were often distorted in the context of ‚Marxism-Leninism‘. „Real socialism“ was massively discredited early on, particularly by state terror under Stalin and later under Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot, and collapsed around 1990. Since then, such concepts have generally been considered permanently discredited, and capitalism has been regarded as without alternative. Weiterlesen
The old Engels would certainly have agreed that Marx’s teachings should be critically revisited. In 1895, six months before his death, he recapitulated in a letter: „But Marx’s whole approach is not a doctrine, but a method. It does not provide ready-made dogmas, but points of reference for further investigation.“[1] Five years earlier, he had said that the „conception of history“ developed by him and Marx was „above all a guide to study“.[2] As early as 1886, he described it as a „great fundamental idea“ of materialist dialectics „that the world should not be understood as a complex of finished things, but as a complex of processes in which the seemingly stable things undergo no less than their mental images in our heads, the concepts, a continuous change of becoming and passing away.“ Therefore, „the demand for definitive solutions and eternal truths must cease once and for all; one must always be aware of the necessary limitations of all knowledge gained.“[3]
However, anyone who consistently applied this to the concept of Marxism quickly found themselves labelled a dissident in „real socialism“ and ran the risk of being persecuted or – under Stalin – murdered.
Why should anything be further developed that Lenin had defined in 1913 as follows: „Marx’s doctrine is all-powerful because it is true. It is self-contained and harmonious; it gives people a unified world view.“[4] Weiterlesen
For those who, in the second half of the 19th century, still mostly worked more than 10 hours a day for little money, there was indeed little energy and opportunity left to rise above their circumstances. For this reason alone, and because of the power imbalance, the responsibility of an individual proletarian for the capitalist economic system was minimal.
But throughout history, people have broken out of their circumstances. In 73 BCE, for example, the slaves who liberated themselves in the Spartacus uprising did so – an example that Marx was familiar with.[1] Since then, countless people have committed themselves to other people, to a wide variety of goals and ideas, even when they knew that they were putting their physical integrity or their very existence at risk. During the lifetimes of Marx and Engels, this was already happening in the struggle for liberation from capitalist oppression, as in the Paris Commune uprising of 1871. During its suppression, up to 35,000 people were massacred and thousands more were later deported.[2]
In the same year, Marx commemorated the „self-sacrificing pioneers of a new and better society“ in his work The Civil War in France.[3] Had these pioneers not cast off their „character masks“? Weiterlesen
After spending 21 months in Great Britain researching industrial development and its consequences, Engels published his book The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1845. It contains harrowing accounts of the living conditions of the English proletariat. Engels writes of the dwellings in the London district of St. Giles, saying that
„the filth and dilapidation exceed all imagination – there is hardly a window pane intact, the walls are crumbling, the doorposts and window frames are broken and loose, the doors are nailed together from old boards or do not exist at all – here in this thieves‘ quarter, doors are not even necessary because there is nothing to steal. Piles of dirt and ashes lie everywhere, and the dirty liquids poured out in front of the doors collect in stinking puddles. This is where the poorest of the poor live, the lowest-paid workers […]“.[1]
Marx’s three-volume work of the same name does not provide a definition of the subject referred to in the title, but rather a multitude of sometimes contradictory statements on the subject. [1]
A small selection: Capital is what becomes of a value that is ‚exploited‘ and turns into ’surplus value‘.[2] „Every new capital enters the stage for the first time […] still as money, […] which is to be transformed into capital through certain processes.“[3] „Capital is money, capital is commodity.“[4] In the third volume of Capital, it then states:
„But capital is not a thing, but a specific social relation of production belonging to a specific historical social formation, which is represented by a thing. Capital is not the sum of the material and produced means of production. Capital is the means of production transformed into capital, which in themselves are as little capital as gold and silver are money in themselves. It is the means of production monopolised by a certain section of society, which have become independent of living labour and the conditions under which this labour is performed.“[5]
According to Marx, capital is therefore simultaneously surplus value, money, commodities, products and means of production. But he believes that it is nevertheless „not a thing“ – rather, it is a production relationship, and thus, in his understanding, an extremely comprehensive category that includes raw materials, means of production and human labour, as well as the processes that take place between them and the existing „conditions of activity“.[6] Weiterlesen