Marxistische Schriften

The first volume of the collected writings of Friedrich Pollock contains texts from the Weimar Republic era that engage with Marx's critique of political economy, particularly focusing on value form analysis and monetary critique. The texts – including Pollock's previously unpublished dissertation from 1923 – demonstrate that the co-founder of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research had already distanced himself from traditional worker Marxism early on and had undertaken a new reading of Marx's writings. Thus, his writings from this period clearly belong to the context of the emergence of Western Marxism, which would play a central role in the development of Critical Theory. In addition to monetary theoretical investigations, the volume also includes a polemic against the anti-Semitic sociologist Werner Sombart, an examination of the industrial revolution in agriculture, as well as four reviews from his estate. The volume is supplemented with editorial notes and a register of persons.