Robert Kurz
Robert Kurz (24 December 1943 – 18 July 2012) was a German Marxist philosopher, social critic, journalist and editor of the journal "Exit!" He was one of Germany's most prominent theorists of value criticism. Life and work. Robert Kurz was born on 24 December 1943 in Nuremberg to a German working-class family. Kurz studied philosophy, history and paedagogy at the university of Erlangen without taking a degree. He was a member 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.