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Johannes Agnoli's death in 2003 deprived us of one of the most important thinkers of the categorical imperative of human emancipation. Werner Bonefeld, a former student of Agnoli's, outlines Agnoli's life and works. This article also collects his much too few English publications below.
Johannes Agnoli was a Italian Marxist political scientist, though he rejected the label Marxist, preferring instead - somewhat ironically - to call himself an Agnolist. Werner Bonefeld, a founder of Open Marxism, was a student of Agnoli's in Berlin. This piece first appeared in German in 1990 and was translated by Bonefeld for issue #12 of the journal Common Sense. An updated translation and preface by Bonefeld appears here from the book Revolutionary Writing, a collection of writings from the Common Sense journal.
Werner Bonefeld on debt, which became a serious political and social issue during the 1980s and 90s, culminating in Black Wednesday in September 1992.