Marx im Westen

Elbe, Ingo

doi:10.1524/9783050061214

“…The development of a specific Critique of the Political Economy of the Media as part of Media and Communication Studies is not a branch of Economics, but about the adequate application and further development of Critical Political Economy approaches available in Political Science, Legal Studies, Economics, Sociology, Philosophy, and Psychology. The theoretical-empirical basis of such an approach is Marx's Critique of Political Economy that can be found in the Marx-Engels-Werke (MEW) (Marx 1962(Marx [1867(Marx , 1890 {English version : Marx [1867: Marx , 1890; Marx 1989 {English version: Marx 1991}; Marx 2009Marx [1863Marx -1865 {English version : Marx [1863: Marx -1865}; {English version: Marx 2010 [1847|}; Marx and Engels 1990[1845/1846 (Hoff 2006;Reichelt 2008) and "Western Marxism" (Behrens and Hafner 2017;Elbe 2008). These approaches are based in part on the new historical-critical Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA²) (Hecker 2018).…”

Section: Way Of Thinking Theoretical-methodological Approach Methods ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Media, Journalism, and the Public Sphere in Private Family Ownership. On the Critique of the Political Economy of Capitalist Media Enterprises

Knoche

2023

tripleC

1

0

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the context of a Critique of the Political Economy of the Media, this article exemplifies the fundamental effects of the globally dominant capitalist private ownership of media companies on media development, journalism, and the public sphere. Selected works by Marx and Engels as well as works from developments of the approaches of the “New Reading of Marx” and “Western Marxism” form the theoretical-methodological basis. Characteristic of capitalism is a mutually conditioning relationship between the socio-economic base and the political-legal superstructure, which makes the ”abolition” of private property and the associated relations of domination and power almost impossible. Therefore, possibilities of a de-capitalisation and de-commodification of journalism and the public sphere based on non-capitalist forms of ownership will be discussed. A special chance of realisation is seen for academic publications without capitalist publishing houses that is feasible because knowledge production takes place at public universities. Finally, a change of strategy is suggested that takes us out of the bourgeois-liberal trap of criticism and hope towards the development of media and social theories as well as humans’ active participation in the organisation of an independent content-based media praxis, which can be conducive to a transformation towards a socialist societal formation.

show abstract

“…The development of a specific Critique of the Political Economy of the Media as part of Media and Communication Studies is not a branch of Economics, but about the adequate application and further development of Critical Political Economy approaches available in Political Science, Legal Studies, Economics, Sociology, Philosophy, and Psychology. The theoretical-empirical basis of such an approach is Marx's Critique of Political Economy that can be found in the Marx-Engels-Werke (MEW) (Marx 1962(Marx [1867(Marx , 1890 {English version : Marx [1867: Marx , 1890; Marx 1989 {English version: Marx 1991}; Marx 2009Marx [1863Marx -1865 {English version : Marx [1863: Marx -1865}; {English version: Marx 2010 [1847|}; Marx and Engels 1990[1845/1846 (Hoff 2006;Reichelt 2008) and "Western Marxism" (Behrens and Hafner 2017;Elbe 2008). These approaches are based in part on the new historical-critical Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA²) (Hecker 2018).…”

Section: Way Of Thinking Theoretical-methodological Approach Methods ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Media, Journalism, and the Public Sphere in Private Family Ownership. On the Critique of the Political Economy of Capitalist Media Enterprises

Knoche

2023

Preprint

0

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the context of a Critique of the Political Economy of the Media, this article exemplifies the fundamental effects of the globally dominant capitalist private ownership of media companies on media development, journalism, and the public sphere. Selected works by Marx and Engels as well as works from developments of the approaches of the “New Reading of Marx” and “Western Marxism” form the theoretical-methodological basis. Characteristic of capitalism is a mutually conditioning relationship between the socio-economic base and the political-legal superstructure, which makes the ”abolition” of private property and the associated relations of domination and power almost impossible. Therefore, possibilities of a de-capitalisation and de-commodification of journalism and the public sphere based on non-capitalist forms of ownership will be discussed. A special chance of realisation is seen for academic publications without capitalist publishing houses that is feasible because knowledge production takes place at public universities. Finally, a change of strategy is suggested that takes us out of the bourgeois-liberal trap of criticism and hope towards the development of media and social theories as well as humans’ active participation in the organisation of an independent content-based media praxis, which can be conducive to a transformation towards a socialist societal formation.

show abstract

“…However, there is one major problem with these critiques of the commodity-form: all three regard the commodity-form and its analyses in Marx’s Capital as a direct exchange of commodities . The problem points to what is probably the critical core of the ‘Neue Marx-Lektüre’ (hereafter cited as NM-L) in Germany, which originated around 1968 in the work of Hans-Georg Backhaus (1997), Helmut Reichelt (1971) and Hans-Jürgen Krahl (1971), but also in the work of a lot of others, especially research groups (Marx-Arbeitsgruppe Historiker, 1972; Projektgruppe Entwicklung des Marxschen Systems, 1973; Projektgruppe zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, 1973; Lenk, 1972; for an overview see Elbe, 2008). The first generation of the NM-L could be understood as the ‘unofficial’ second generation of Critical Theory 3 and brought about a change in how to criticize commodity-formed mediation in general and how to read Marx’s value-form analysis in particular, thereby founding a new paradigm of interpretation.…”

Section: The Reconstruction Of Marx’s Critique Of Political Econommentioning

confidence: 99%

Subjectivity and its crisis

Engster

¹

2016

History of the Human Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Neither Critical Theory nor western Marxism ever understood crises as being solely concerned with the economy. Both saw them rather as necessarily involving consciousness and subjectivity as well. How does Critical Theory conceptualize economy and subjectivity as inseparable? This is the crucial question. Critical Theory claims, indeed, that it shows the inner connection between the economy and subjectivity. In its first generation, at any rate (Jay, 1996), Critical Theory meant to show that the economy is a constitutive part of subjectivity, while also being its blind spot; or even that the economy is its blind spot because it is essentially constructive of subjectivity. The article will specify the connection between the economy and subjectivity and then will indicate the blind spot. While Critical Theory does not fully pinpoint the blind spot in this connection, by tracing the discussion that followed its first generation we may better find out what this blind spot might be.

show abstract

Marx im Westen

Cited by 84 publications

References 0 publications

Media, Journalism, and the Public Sphere in Private Family Ownership. On the Critique of the Political Economy of Capitalist Media Enterprises

Media, Journalism, and the Public Sphere in Private Family Ownership. On the Critique of the Political Economy of Capitalist Media Enterprises

Media, Journalism, and the Public Sphere in Private Family Ownership. On the Critique of the Political Economy of Capitalist Media Enterprises

Subjectivity and its crisis

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About