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Books and Edited Volumes (2024)/(2025) : Ingo Elbe: Anti-Semitism and Postcolonial Theory. The ‘Progressive’ Attack on Israel, Judaism and Holocaust Remembrance . Edition Tiamat. Berlin, 406 pp. (second edition, Berlin 2024; third edition, Berlin 2025) (2022) : Ingo Elbe, Robin Forstenhäusler, Katrin Henkelmann, Jan Rickermann, Hagen Schneider, Andreas Stahl (eds.): Problems of Anti-Racism. Postcolonial Studies, Critical Whiteness and Intersectionality Research under Scrutiny . Edition Tiamat, Berlin, 588 pp., Berlin 2022 (2020)/(2021) : Ingo Elbe: Forms of Counter-Enlightenment. Studies on Conservatism, Political Existentialism and Postmodernism. Königshausen&Neumann, Würzburg, 312 pp. (second, revised edition, Würzburg 2021)(2015) : Ingo Elbe: Paradigms of Anonymous Rule. Political Philosophy from Hobbes to Arendt . Königshausen&Neumann, Würzburg, 525 pp.(2014b–2018) : Ingo Elbe, Sven Ellmers, Christoph Hesse, Falko Schmieder and Oliver Schlaudt (eds.): Journal of Critical Social Theory and Philosophy. Walter de Gruyter (2014a): Ingo Elbe, Philip Hogh and Christine Zunke (eds.): Oldenburg Yearbook of Philosophy 2012, BIS-Verlag Oldenburg(2012b) : Ingo Elbe/Christine Zunke (eds.): Oldenburg Yearbook of Philosophy 2011, BIS-Verlag Oldenburg, 169 pp.(2012a) : Ingo Elbe/Sven Ellmers/Jan Eufinger (eds.): Anonymous Rule – On the Structure of Modern Power Relations. Property, Social Contract, State III, Westfälisches Dampfboot , Münster, 324 pp.(2011) : Sven Ellmers and Ingo Elbe (eds.): Morality under Scrutiny. Ethics as the Foundation and Subject of Critical Social Theory, Königshausen&Neumann , Würzburg, 179 pp.(2010) : Devi Dumbadze/Ingo Elbe/Sven Ellmers (eds.): A Critique of Political Philosophy. Property, Social Contract, State II, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot , Münster, 357 pp.(2009) : Ingo Elbe/Sven Ellmers (eds.): Property – Social Contract – State. Foundational Constellations of Modernity, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot , Münster, 340 pp.(2008)/(2010) : Ingo Elbe: Marx in the West. The New Reading of Marx in the Federal Republic, Akademie Verlag , ‘Political Ideas’ series edited by Herfried Münkler, Berlin (second edition, Berlin 2010), 643 pp.Essays (2026c) : ‘Killing an Israeli means killing two birds with one stone’. Remarks on the potential for violence and affinity for authoritarianism in postcolonial discourse. In: H. Hansen/A. Pfahl-Traughber (eds.): Yearbook for Research on Extremism and Terrorism, Brühl 2026, pp. 59–94 ( updated versions of sections from books published in 2024/25) (2026b) : Slogans of postcolonial hostility towards Israel. A sketch. In: Andreas Jacobs and Richard Ottinger (eds.): Academic Anti-Semitism . Leipzig (abridged and modified version of 2025b) (2026a) : ‘Postmodern Delusion in Historyland’. The Return of the Gods in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Postcolonial Theory . In: Enlightenment and Critique. 1/2026 , pp. 192–206 (2025d) : (with Sven Ellmers) How the Jerusalem Declaration Trivialises Anti-Semitism . In: Archive for Critical Social Theory, December 2025, pp. 1–11 (expanded version of the article for the Jüdische Allgemeine) (2025c) : ‘By Any Means Necessary’ – Authoritarianism and the Potential for Violence in Anti-Zionist Postcolonial Discourse . In: Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs (translation and update of sections from the 2024 book), Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 9–25 (2025b): “ Stop Genocide – Free Palestine”. Slogans of postcolonial hostility towards Israel. Available at: https://www.hagalil.com/2025/12/parolen-postkolonialer-israelfeindschaft/ and in the Archive for Critical Social Theory/November 2025 (updated versions of sections from the 2024 book) (2025a) : Anti-Semitism and postcolonial theory – an outline. In: Central Council of Jews in Germany (ed.): The Power of Projection and 7 October. Anti-Israeli Obsessions as a Worldview . Leipzig ( updated sections from the 2024 book), pp. 304–324 (2024) : Postcolonialism, Anti-Semitism, and Israel: The ‘Progressive’ Attack on the Jewish State and Holocaust Memory. In: Ivo Ritzer (ed.): On the Critique of Identity. Stuttgart, pp. 155–185 (translation of sections from *Books 2024*) (2023b) : Hannah Arendt’s View of the Holocaust – with an Outlook on its Postcolonial Heirs. In: S. Grigat/J. Hoffmann/M. Seul/A. Stahl (eds.): Remembering as the Highest Form of Forgetting? (Re-)interpretations of the Holocaust and the ‘Historians’ Dispute 2.0’ , Verbrecher-Verlag, Berlin (substantially expanded version of a contribution in *Bücher* 2015) (2023a): Postcolonialism and Anti-Semitism. Bibliography and Introduction to the Critique of Postcolonial and Postmodern Anti-Racist Approaches to Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, Judaism and Zionism . In: S. Grigat (ed.): Critique of Contemporary Anti-Semitism. Manifestations – Theories – Countermeasures. Nomos-Verlag. Baden-Baden, pp. 157–169 (Reprint of the online paper 2022b) (2022b) : Postcolonialism and Anti-Semitism. Bibliography and Introduction to the Critique of Postcolonial and Postmodern Anti-Racist Approaches to Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, Judaism and Zionism . Working Paper No. 006 of the Centre for Antisemitism and Racism Studies ( constantly updated version here ) (2022a): The postmodern Querfront . Notes on Chantal Mouffe’s Theory of the Political . In: M. Clemens/Th. Päthe/M. Petersdorff (eds.): The Return of the Authoritarian Character. Transatlantic Perspectives. Wiesbaden, pp. 209–233 (English translation of 2018b) (2021d) : Authoritarian Liberalism or the Aestheticisation of Politics? Notes on Carl Schmitt’s Concept of the Political. In: Constelaciones. Journal of Critical Theory Vol 13/2021, pp. 4–35 (translation of a modified and abridged version of a chapter from *Paradigms of Anonymous Rule*) (2021c) : ‘The Evil Committed by Nobody’. Hannah Arendt’s Concept of the ‘Rule of Nobody’ . In: Kritiknetz – Journal of Critical Theory of Society/2021 (expanded version of the essay from Paradigms of Anonymous Rule ) (2021b) : ‘The “Conspiracy of the Ashes of Zion”’. Notes on the postcolonial attack on the singularity of the Holocaust In: Kritiknetz – Journal of Critical Theory of Society/2021 (expanded version of an essay from Forms of Counter-Enlightenment , 2nd ed.) (2021a) : “… it’s not systemic”. Anti-Semitism in postmodern anti-racism . In: Kritiknetz – Journal of Critical Social Theory/2021 (substantially expanded and revised version of 2020a) (2020f) : State of the capitalists or state of capital? Lines of reception of Engels’ concept of the state in the 20th century . In: Verinotio – Revista on-line de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, vol. 26, no. 2 (2020): 200 anos de Friedrich Engels (Brazilian translation of 2012a) (2020e) : The False Reconciliation of Subject and Object. A Critique of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Hermeneutic Anti-Realism. With an epilogue: Dipesh Chakrabarty’s conservative hermeneutics in postmodern ‘Historyland’. In: sans phrase. Journal of Ideology Critique, Issue 16, Spring 2020, pp. 91–121 (version from Forms of the Counter-Enlightenment , expanded) (2020d) : Reification and Real Abstraction in Marx’s Critique of Political Economy . In: A. Oliva/I. Novara/A. Oliva (eds.): Marx and Contemporary Critical Theory: The Philosophy of Real Abstraction. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 249–264 (English translation from 2017 et seq.) (2020c): The Anguish of Freedom. Is Sartre’s existentialism an appropriate foundation for a theory of antisemitism? In: *Antisemitism Studies*, Vol. 4, No. 1/Spring 2020, Indiana University Press, pp. 48–81 (translation of an expanded version from 2010b) (2020b): The Drive Economy of Destruction. Critical Theory on the Emotional Matrix of the Extermination of the Jews. In: K. Henkelmann/A. Stahl et al. (eds.): Conformist Rebels. On the Relevance of the Authoritarian Character. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2020, pp. 73–105 (revised version of 2014f)(2020a): “… it’s not systemic”. Anti-Semitism in academic anti-racism. In: T. Amelung (ed.): Irrwege. Analyses of Contemporary Queer Politics. Querverlag, Berlin 2020, pp. 224–260(2019b): Eugen Pachukanis’s General Theory of Law and Marxism . In: Revista Direito e Praxis. Vol. 10, No. 02, 2019, pp. 1554–1582 (Portuguese translation of a lecture from 2018) (2019a): Between Marx , Marxism and the Various Forms of Marxism: Ways of Reading Marx’s Theory. In: Praksis No. 48 (Turkish translation of 2006e) (2018d) : Contractualism. In: Samuel Salzborn (ed.): Handbook of the History of Political Ideas. Approaches – Methods – Trends. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart, pp. 141–153 (2018c) : Helmut Reichelt and the New Reading of Marx . In: B. Best/W. Bonefeld/C. O’Kane/N. Larsen (eds.): Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Volume I: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society , Sage Publications, London, pp. 367–385(2018b): The Postmodern Transversal Front. Notes on Chantal Mouffe’s Theory of the Political . In: sans phrase. Journal of Ideology Critique, Issue 12/2018, pp. 107–127 (expanded version in: Ingo Elbe: Figures of the Counter-Enlightenment. Würzburg 2020)(2018a) : Pachukanis versus Lenin: two paradigms of Marxist critique of the state: In: Margem Esquerda No. 30 (Brazilian translation of 2006h)(2017i) : Political Power, Fascism and Ideology. Ernesto Laclau’s Engagement with Nicos Poulantzas. In: A. Hetzel (ed.): Radical Democracy. On Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau’s Understanding of the State. Nomos-Verlag. Baden-Baden, pp. 39–63(2017h): Šta je Drzava? In: Stvar/Thing. časopis za teorijske prakse / journal for theoretical practices. Novi Sad, pp. 257–278(2017g) : “Purification Sets Us Free.” Karl Jaspers’ Contribution to the Creation of a National Community of Guilt through the Acceptance of the Concept of Collective Guilt. In: sans phrase. Journal of Ideology Critique, Issue 11/2017, pp. 110–130(2017f): The concept of reification in Marx’s critique of political economy. In: Pietro Garofalo/Michael Quante (eds .): The Spectre Is Back! The Relevance of Marx’s Philosophy . Mimesis. Milan, pp. 95–107(2017e) : Alienated and abstract labour. Levels of meaning and gaps in the conceptual foundation of the concept of alienated labour in Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. (Introduction to) Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. Editora Martin Claret (Brazilian translation of an abridged and revised version of 2014d), pp. 7–55(2017d) : Habermas’s Critique of the Production Paradigm. In: Gabriel Ricci (ed.): The Persistence of Critical Theory, vol. 8 of Culture & Civilization. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, pp. 165–186 (English version of 2014g) (2017c) : The State of Capital. An outline of an argument following Paschukanis. In: AG Rechtskritik (eds.): Critique of Law and the State following Marx and Paschukanis. Berlin, pp. 51–59 (abridged and revised version of 2012a)(2017b) : ‘Everyone’s a victim’, or: ‘The world as a concentration camp’. Relativising Auschwitz with Adorno (English version of 2016a). In: https://networks.h-net.org/h-antisemitismBetween Marx, Marxism and Marxisms : (2017a) (Persian version of 2006e)(2016a) : ‘We, the Victims’, or: ‘The World as a Concentration Camp’. A critique of Marc Nicolas Sommer’s negative philosophy of history . kritischebildung.de/afkg (2015c) : A New Reading of Marx. In: Michael Quante/David Schweikard (eds.): Marx Handbook. Metzler-Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 343–349 (abridged and revised version of 2012c)(2015b) : (with Sven Ellmers): Public Life. On Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Economic Growth. In: Journal of Critical Social Theory and Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 2. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 371–400 (expanded version in: I. Elbe, Forms of the Counter-Enlightenment, Würzburg 2020)(2015a) : Between Marx, Marxism and Marxisms: Ways of Interpreting Marx’s Theory. In: *Tekstoteka Filozoficzna* No. 4, pp. 66–85 (Polish translation of an expanded version from 2006e)(2014g) : Habermas’s Critique of the Production Paradigm . In: Smail Rapic (ed.): Habermas and Historical Materialism, Karl Alber-Verlag, Freiburg, pp. 123–150(2014f) : The Drive-Economy of Destruction. Critical Theory on the Emotional Matrix of the Extermination of the Jews. In: M. Jacobsen/D. Lehmann/F. Röhrbein (eds.): Critical Theory and Emancipation, Königshausen&Neumann, Würzburg, pp. 169–190(2014e) : The Purpose of Politics. Carl Schmitt’s Fascist Concept of ‘Serious Existence ’. In: H. Wallat (ed.): Morality and Violence. A Discussion of the Dialectic of Liberation, Unrast-Verlag, Münster, pp. 145–172 (expanded version in: Rosa Luxemburg Initiative Bremen (eds.): Maulwurfsarbeit III, Berlin 2015, pp. 39–52)(2014d) : Alienated and Abstract Labour. Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts in Comparison with his Later Critique of Political Economy . In I. Elbe/P. Hogh/Ch. Zunke (eds.): Oldenburg Yearbook of Philosophy 2012, BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg, pp. 7–69(2014c): Marx vs. Engels – The Theory of Value and the Concept of Socialism . In : Centre for Social Analysis, 7 April 2014. drustvenaanaliza.blogspot.de/2014/04/marx-vs-engels-teorija-vrijednosti-i.html (Croatian translation from 2001)(2014b): Social Form and History . In: Centre for Social Analysis, 9 March 2014. drustvenaanaliza.blogspot.de/2014/03/drustvena-forma-i-povijest.html (Croatian translation of 2010c), 17 pp.(2014a) : Between Marx, Marxism and Marxisms – Ways of Reading Marx’s Theory . In: Centre for Social Analysis, 30 January 2014. drustvenaanaliza.blogspot.de/2014/01/ingo-elbe-izmeu-marksa-marksizma-i.html (Serbian translation of an expanded version of 2006e), 18 pp.(2013b) : Between Marx, Marxism and Marxisms. Ways of Reading Marx’s Theory. In: Viewpoint Magazine. Investigations in Contemporary Politics. 21 October 2013 (English translation of an expanded version of 2006e), 14 pp.(2013a): John Locke: Two Treatises of Government . In: S. Salzborn (ed.): Classics of the Social Sciences. Portraits of 100 Key Works, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 18–22(2012c) : A New Reading of Marx. A Research Report . In: Information Philosophie, Issue 2, pp. 26–35(2012b) : The ‘Rule of the Norm’ between Validity and Coercion. Property, Law and the State in Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law. In: Ingo Elbe/Sven Ellmers/Jan Eufinger (eds.): Anonymous Domination – On the Structure of Modern Power Relations. Property, Social Contract, State III, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster, pp. 191–248(2012a) : State of the Capitalists or State of Capital? Lines of Reception of Engels’ Concept of the State in the 20th Century . In: S. Salzborn (ed.): ‘… into the Museum of Antiquities’. State Theory and Critique of the State in Friedrich Engels, Baden-Baden, pp. 155–180 (excerpts from books published in 2010 and 2015)(2011b) : From Owner to Property. Natural law, the social contract and the state in the thought of John Locke . In: C. Zunke (ed.): Oldenburg Yearbook of Philosophy 2010, Oldenburg 2011, pp. 145–180. (revised version of 2009b)(2011a) : A Re-reading of Marx. Remarks on the Marxist-Leninist Backlash in the Reception of Marx . In: www.rote-ruhr-uni.com/cms/ (2010d) : “Man is an animal that … needs a master ”. On the tension between practical reason, property and state power in Immanuel Kant’s philosophy of law. In: Devi Dumbadze/Ingo Elbe/Sven Ellmers (eds.): Critique of Political Philosophy. Property, Social Contract, State II, Münster, pp. 86–128(2010c) : Social Form and History. The subject matter of *Capital* from the perspective of recent readings of Marx. In: *Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie*, 58/Issue 2, pp. 221–240(2010b) : Fear of Freedom. Is Sartre’s Existentialism a Suitable Foundation for a Theory of Anti-Semitism? In: Prodomo. A Journal in Its Own Right, No. 14, pp. 46–56(2010a) : ‘No atom is a natural substance’ and ‘objective appearance’ – Critique of Political Economy as materialism of second nature. In: F. Schmieder (ed.): The Crisis of Sustainability. On the Critique of Political Ecology, Ff/M., pp. 19–31 (revised chapter from (Books) 2008/2010)(2009f) : Object and Method in Marx’s Critique of Political Economy – Philosophical Dimensions of Marx’s Late Work. Study guide from the Open University, Hagen 2009, 48 pp.(2009e) : Operative Dialectics. Problems with ‘emphatic’ concepts of dialectics in the debate on the presentation of Marx’s critique of political economy. In: S. Müller (ed.): Problems of Dialectics Today, Wiesbaden, pp. 177–199 (revised chapter from (Books) 2008/2010)(2009d) : To (not) make a state? The Soviet debate on the path to ‘adjectival’ socialism. In: associazione talpe/Rosa Luxemburg Initiative Bremen (eds.): Questions of the State. Introductions to Materialist Critique of the State, Bremen, pp. 24–41. (revised chapter from (books) 2008/2010)(2009c) : Analysis of legal form beyond command theory. An alternative to the reductionist conception of ‘legal-discursive’ power. In: D. Dumbadze/ J. Geffers/ J. Haut/ A. Klöpper/ V. Lux/ I. Pimminger (eds.): Knowledge and Critique. Contemporary Positions, Bielefeld, pp. 193–212 (revised chapter from (Books) 2008/2010)(2009b) : Private property – rooted ‘deep in human nature’? John Locke’s Formulation of the Concept of Civil Property, in: Ingo Elbe/ Sven Ellmers (eds.): Property – Social Contract – State. Foundational Constellations of Modernity, Münster, pp. 70–108(2009a) : The Price of Freedom. Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy between a theory of power in law and a theory of law in power. In: Ingo Elbe/Sven Ellmers (eds.): Property – Social Contract – State. Foundational Constellations of Modernity, Münster, pp. 13–69(2008j) : Marx vs. Engels: Value Theory and Views on Socialism (Korean translation from 2001). Online: blog.jinbo.net/cheiskra/17 (2008i): Helmut Reichelt’s Theory of Validity:A Contribution to the Rational Reconstruction of ‘Catastrophe’? (Korean translation of 2006a). Online: blog.jinbo.net/cheiskra/18 (2008h): Holloway’s ‘Open Marxism’: A commentary on form analysis as a theory of action and revolutionary romanticism (Korean translation of 2006d). Online: blog.jinbo.net/cheiskra/ (2008g): Ingo Elbe: Between Marx, Marxism and Marxisms – Ways of Reading Marxist Theory (lecture introduction) (Korean translation of 2006e). Online: blog.jinbo.net/cheiskra/7 (2008f) : Legal Form and Relations of Production. Notes on a blind spot in Nicos Poulantzas’s social theory. In: U. Lindner/ J. Nowak/ P. Paust-Lassen (eds.): Philosophising amongst others. Contributions to the Palaver of Humanity, Münster 2008, pp. 225–237 (revised chapter from (Books) 2008/2010)(2008e) : Moments of Upheaval in the Old Society. Revolutionary Theory and its Critique in Marx. In: F. Kettner/ P. Mentz (eds.): Theory as Critique, Freiburg, pp. 93–123(2008d) : Marxism-Mysticism – or: The Transformation of Marx’s Theory into German Ideology. In: Scientific Communications of the Berlin Association for the Promotion of the MEGA Edition, Issue 6: Social Practice and its Scientific Representation. Contributions to the ‘Capital’ Debate, Berlin, pp. 187–209 (revised version of 2007a)(2008c) : Analysis of the Form of Value and Money. On the Debate Concerning Popularisations, Discontinuities and Hiding Games in Marx’s Exposition. In: Scientific Communications of the Berlin Association for the Promotion of the MEGA Edition, Issue 6: Social Practice and its Scientific Representation. Contributions to the ‘Capital’ Debate, Berlin, pp. 210–240 (revised chapter from (Books) 2008/2010)(2008b) : The Persistence of ‘Engelsism’. Remarks on the ‘Marx–Engels Problem’. In: Marx-Engels Jahrbuch 2007, pp. 92–105 (republished in: Hintergrund. Journal of Critical Social Theory and Politics IV/2009, pp. 20–31)(2008a) : The Peculiar Logic of a Peculiar Subject? On the Debate Concerning the Specific Nature of Dialectical Representation in Marx’s Critique of Political Economy. In: U. Freikamp/ M. Leanza/ J. Mende/ S. Müller/ P. Ullrich/ H.-J. Voß (eds.): Critique with Method? Research Methods and Social Critique, Berlin, pp. 299–325 (revised chapter from (books) 2008/2010, republished in: Hintergrund. Journal of Critical Social Theory and Politics III/2008, pp. 12–42)(2007c) : Afterword to the Marx Debate. In: *Prodomo. Zeitschrift in eigener Sache*, No. 7, pp. 47–49(2007b) : Anything Ghost. A reply to Joachim Bruhn and the Prodomo editorial team. In: Prodomo. A Journal of Our Own, No. 6, pp. 33–38(2007a) : Marxism-Mysticism, or: The Transformation of Marx’s Theory into German Ideology. In: Prodomo. A Journal of Our Own Making, No. 5, pp. 11–18(2006h) : Paschukanis versus Lenin. Two paradigms of Marxist critique of the state. In: H. Hertzfeld/ K. Schäfgen/ S. Thieme (eds.): Law in Discourse. Studies in Legal Theory and Practice, Illustrated by International Examples, Berlin, pp. 55–70(2006g) (with Christoph Hesse): Subject and Practice. What Remains of Western Marxism? In: Fantomas. Magazine for Left-Wing Debate and Practice, No. 10 Winter/Spring 07, pp. 32–35(2006f) : Mr S. and Nature. Alfred Schmidt on his 75th birthday. In: Prodomo. A Journal in Its Own Right, No. 4, pp. 22–27(2006e) : Between Marx, Marxism and Marxisms. Interpretations of Marx’s Theory. In: J. Hoff/ A. Petrioli/ I. Stützle/ F. O. Wolf (eds.): Rereading Capital. Contributions to Radical Philosophy, Münster, pp. 52–71 (in modified form in Books 2008) (2006d) : Holloway’s ‘Open Marxism’. Remarks on Form Analysis as a Theory of Action and Revolutionary Romanticism . In: *Zeitschrift marxistische Erneuerung* No. 67, pp. 162–171 (in modified form in *Bücher* 2008) (2006c) : Form analysis as a theory of action? Brief remarks on Martin Eichler’s defence of Helmut Reichelt’s approach. In: CEE IEH No. 131, pp. 46–49(2006b) : Methodological Abstraction and Objective Semantics. Remarks on Dieter Wolf’s Reconstruction of Value Theory. In: CEE IEH No. 129, pp. 34–41 (in modified form in Bücher 2008) (2006a) : Helmut Reichelt’s theory of validity. A contribution to the rational reconstruction of fate? In: CEE IEH No. 128, pp. 32–35 (in modified form in Bücher 2008) (2004) : The Form of Commodity, the Form of Law, the Form of the State. Paschukanis’s Explanation of the Legal and State-Theoretical Content of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy. In: *grundrisse*. Journal for Left-Wing Theory and Debate No. 9, pp. 44–53. (in modified form in *Bücher* 2008) (2001): Marx vs. Engels. The Theory of Value and the Concept of Socialism . In: www.rote-ruhr-uni.com/cms/ (2000) : Leo Kofler’s Marxism – Between Ideology and Critique. In: BSZ No. 517, p. 24 (republished in: Mitteilungen der Leo-Kofler-Gesellschaft No. 5/2002, pp. 20ff. and in: Z. Zeitschrift marxistische Erneuerung No. 44/2000, pp. 184–187).Review articles (2026) : Review of Dan Diner, *Another War: Jewish Palestine and the Second World War 1935–1942* . On haGalil. Jewish Life Online (2024d) : Review of Adam Kirsch, *On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice*. On: haGalil.com – Jewish Life Online (2024c) : Review of Hans Jonas: *Gnosis: The Message of the Strange God *. On: haGalil.com – Jewish Life Online (2024b) : Review of Hillel Cohen: *Army of Shadows. Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948* . On: haGalil. Jewish Life Online (2024a) : Review of Oren Kessler, *Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict* . In: haGalil. Jewish Life Online (2023) : Review of Jonas Kreienbaum: ‘A Sad Fiasco’. Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa 1900–1908 . On haGalil. Jewish Life Online (2022b) : Review of Adi Schwartz/Einat Wilf, The Struggle for Return. How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Hindered Peace, on: haGalil.com – Jewish Life Online (2022a) : Postmodern anti-Semitism. Review of Bruno Chaouat: *Is Theory Good for the Jews? French Thought and the Challenge of the New Anti-Semitism *. On: haGalil.com – Jewish Life Online (2021) : Hyam Maccoby: A People of Pariahs. On the Anthropology of Anti-Semitism. On: haGalil.com. Jewish Life Online (2020) : Bernard Lewis: *Race and Slavery in the Middle East. An Historical Enquiry* (2019) : The Alphabet and Anti-Semitism. Review of Michael Blume, Why Anti-Semitism Threatens Us All. In: mena-watch. The independent Middle East think tank, 17 May 2019(2018) : What is populism? In: Tekstoteka Filozoficzna No. 7, pp. 82–85 (Polish translation of 2016c)(2016c) : Jan-Werner Müller: What is populism? An essay. www.rote-ruhr-uni.com/cms/ (2016b) : Herbert Jäger, Crime under Totalitarian Rule. Studies on Nazi Violent Crime. www.rote-ruhr-uni.com/cms (2016a): Ellen Meiksins Wood: The Origin of Capitalism. A Search for Clues . www.rote-ruhr-uni.com/cms/ (2013) : Michael J. Sandel, What Money Cannot Buy: The Moral Limits of the Market. In: Widerspruch. Munich Journal of Philosophy 57, pp. 132–133(2011e) : ‘Remained Decent’ – On the Morality of Nazi Perpetrators. Review of Raphael Gross, Anständig geblieben. Nationalsozialistische Moral, Ff/M. 2010. In: Sozialwissenschaftliche Literatur-Rundschau, issue 63, pp. 58–63(2011d) : Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy. In *Widerspruch*. Munich Journal of Philosophy 54, pp. 119–12(2011c) : Morris Vollmann, ‘Freud versus Kant? A Moral Critique of Psychoanalysis and Practical Reason’ (Bielefeld 2010). In: *Widerspruch*. *Münchner Zeitschrift für Philosophie* 53, pp. 177–179(2011b) : Review of Salzborn, Samuel; Voigt, Rüdiger (eds.): Sovereignty. Theoretical and Intellectual-Historical Reflections. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2010. In: hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2011-2-009.pdf (2011a) : Review of Winfried Schröder, Moral Nihilism. Radical Moral Criticism from the Sophists to Nietzsche (Stuttgart 2005). www.rote-ruhr-uni.com/cms/ (2009c) : Marx Global. Review of Jan Hoff, Marx Global. On the Development of the International Marxist Discourse since 1965 (Berlin 2009). In: Zeitschrift marxistische Erneuerung No. 80, pp. 190–192(2009b) : A New Reading of Marx? Review of Helmut Reichelt, A New Reading of Marx. On the Critique of Social-Scientific Logic (Hamburg 2008). In: Marx-Engels Jahrbuch 2008, pp. 158–162(2009a) : Marx for Activists. Review of Gerhard Hanloser and Karl Reitter, The Activist Marx: An Introductory Critique of Circulation Marxism (Münster 2008). www.rote-ruhr-uni.com/cms/ (2008d) : Good Reasons for Atheism. Review of John Leslie Mackie, The Miracle of Theism (Stuttgart 1985/2006). www.rote-ruhr-uni.com/cms/ (2008c) : The Dual Character of Law. Review of Sonja Buckel, Subjectivisation and Cohesion. Towards the Reconstruction of a Materialist Theory of Law (Weilerswist 2007). In: Z. Zeitschrift marxistische Erneuerung No. 76, pp. 197–201(2008b) : Perspectives on the Relevance of Thomas Hobbes. Review of Leo Strauss: Collected Writings, Volume 3: Hobbes’s Political Science and Related Writings / Thomas Schneider, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan. On the Logic of the Political Body / Dieter Hüning (ed.), The Long Shadow of the Leviathan. Hobbes’ Political Philosophy after 350 Years. In: Z. 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Why the academic-activist demonisation of Israel is so dangerous . In: Jüdische Allgemeine, 15 April 2024(2024a) : Remembrance as the highest form of forgetting? (Re)interpretations of the Holocaust and the ‘Historians’ Dispute 2.0’. taz-Talk – online (video)(2023d) : Anti-Semitism and the postcolonial Left: When Israel is always and only to blame for the conflict. Interview on SWR 2(2023c) : Comparing the Hamas pogrom of 7 October to the Holocaust is a misuse of Holocaust remembrance, say Omer Bartov, Raz Segal, Christopher Browning et al. This is why they are wrong . In: Fathom Journal, 5 December 2023 (2023b) : Open letter: Misuse of Holocaust remembrance? Mena-Watch. The independent Middle East think tank, 28 November 2023(2023a) : Discussion on the postcolonial attack on the singularity of the Holocaust . Podcast ‘Colonial Traces in Oldenburg’ by Werkstattfilm(2022) : Anti-Semitism at documenta: Poorly advised . mena-watch. 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