Karl Reitter

teaches philosophy and published the book Prozesse der Befreiung: Marx, Spinoza und die Bedingungen eines freien Gemeinwesens [Processes of Liberation: Marx, Spinoza and the Conditions of a Free Community] in 2011. This year he edited the volume Karl Marx. Philosoph der Befreiung oder Theoretiker des Kapitals? Zur Kritik der ›neuen Marx-Lektüre‹ [Karl Marx. Philosopher of Liberation or Theorist of Capital? A Critique of the “New Reading of Marx”].

“There is a tendency to fetishize the fetish”: An Interview with Karl Reitter

“There is a tendency to fetishize the fetish”: An Interview with Karl Reitter

Reitter’s insistence that Capital is not principally a text about the “autonomous” subject of capital, but the specific social relations that underlie capitalism and their constitutive struggles, provides an important challenge. Class struggle, in this reading, is not simply additive to theories of value or crisis; it indicates the historical movement which opens up to the possibility of liberation, a movement which is irreducible to any determinism.