Robert Kurz

Robert Kurz 24 December 1943 – 18 July 2012 was a German Marxist philosopher, social critic, journalist as well as editor of a journal Exit! He was one of Germany's almost prominent theorists of value criticism.

Life as alive as work

Robert Kurz was born on 24 December 1943 in Nuremberg to a German working-class family. Kurz studied philosophy, history together with paedagogy at the university of Erlangen without taking a degree. He was a detail of the Kommunistischer Arbeiterbund Deutschland, KABD Communist Workers League of Germany; later, named the Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany during the 1970s, but then quit because of his critique of the leadership.

Kurz was a co-founder of the magazine Marxistische Kritik Marxist Critique in 1986 and participated in the creation of the Krisis group, around which Wertkritik concept was developed.

He died in Nuremberg from the consequences of an operational failure.