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I, Franz John Tennyson Lee, was born in Ficksburg in 1938. I am a South African then classified as "Coloured" by the racist legislation of my home country. Since 1962, having acquired a scholarship to study overseas, I have been living in the Federal Republic of Germany till 1977.

Between 1962 and 1970, in Tuebingen an Frankfort on the Main, I studied Political Science, Philosophy and History under Professors Ernst Bloch, Theodor W. Adorno, Juergen Habermas and Iring W. Fetscher. I obtained my Ph.D degree at the University of Frankfurt on the Main in 1970. Since January 1972, I have been a Senior Lecturer in Political Sciences at the Fachhochschule Darmstadt (Darmstadt University of Technology).

Between April 1977 and March 1979, I lectured as Professor of Marxism and African Studies at the University of Guyana, Georgetown, in the Department of Political Science and Law, of which I was Acting-Head of Department during the Academic year 1978/1979. Since September 1979, I joined the staff of the post-graduate department of the University of The Andes, M�rida, Venezuela, as Professor of International Politics, where I am still teaching. Between November 1982 and July 1983, as Visiting Scholar, I lectured at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies. At the beginning of the 90s, as Guest Professor of Latin American Studies, I was invited to lecture at the Universities of Frankfurt and Darmstadt.

I have published various works. (See: http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/Pages/profilefull.aspx?IndID=5239 Also: http://www.franzlee.org.ve/newbooks.html).

Among these publications are:
Technische Intelligenz und Klassenkampf (1974);
Teor�a-Praxis de la Revoluci�n-Emancipaci�n (1983).

I also made contributions to other books:
"Ra�ces hist�ricas y socio-econ�micas de la ideolog�a del racismo: Sud�frica y Guyana", in Guyana Hoy (ed. R. G. de Romero, 1982);
"Dependence and Revolutionary Theory: Relevance to the African Situation", in Political Science in Africa: A Critical Review ( ed. Yolamu R. Barongo, 1983).

The very latest works, published in 2008 here in Venezuela are:
"�Qu� es el Socialismo Cient�fico Filos�ficco, el ;arxismo?" and "Venezuela: Sin Teor�a no habr� ni partido pol�tico socialista ni vanguardia obrera de la revolucion".

In the fields of social and political work, from 1960 till today, I untiringly was active in the anti-apartheid and anti-imperialist struggles in Africa, Western Europe, Canada, and, in North and South America. Currently I support the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, the Caribbean and South America.

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18 Articles

Friday, October 30, 2009
Venezuela: Beware, Big Business enters the Orinoco Delta and with it a coming Big War!
(1 comments) We are being besieged and how many millions are protesting? Internally, the reactionary forces, paramilitary troops and 'guarimbas' continue. ...

Sunday, October 11, 2009
Columbus' 'discovery' of America: the greatest hoax of all times?
(3 comments) Instead of winning Nobel Peace Prizes, who in Washington D.C. will ever discover the flowing, over flowing Mandinga truth about this world one day?

Monday, July 27, 2009
Honduras and Venezuela, Rosa Luxemburg still is saying: Peace means the world-wide revolution of the proletariat!
(4 comments) The dialectics between Violence, Peace and Emancipation.

Monday, May 25, 2009
Europe is well on its way to Walk the Plank of Recession
Europe is sinking in the morass of global recession.

Friday, May 22, 2009
Venezuela: Are we on Orbit of International Class Struggle?
Explanation of immense difficulty to realize socialism on a world scale

Saturday, May 2, 2009
Labor Day 2009: What is the supreme question of global depression and recession?
The starting point of all social critique and change.

Monday, April 27, 2009
Super Depression: Ernst Bloch and international class struggles
(2 comments) This article relates the Big Crash to worker struggles.

Saturday, March 28, 2009
The global debacle is a profound structural energetic crisis
This is not simply a financial or economic crisis, it is the energetic collapse of the capitalist mode of destruction.

Sunday, March 8, 2009
Obama, this is no economic crisis, it is the systemic breakdown of capitalism
(4 comments) In this rambling monolog, Prof. Lee speculates that Capitalism is the root cause of the world's economic problems.

Friday, February 20, 2009
Venezuela: Scientific Prediction versus News Blockade and Censorship
(3 comments) Chavez: Launching the Third Phase of the Bolivarian Revolution

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
The 'opposition' is sowing wind, Chavez warns about reaping storm
Venezuela is not only the land of many waters, it is also a land of many contradictions.

Thursday, February 12, 2009
In Venezuela, is the extreme right meeting the extreme left?
(1 comments) Critical philosophic comments in our epoch about extremism, radical politics and class struggle in Venezuela and elsewhere.

Thursday, February 5, 2009
Karl Marx: "The crowing of the Gallic 'Hahn' in Paris will once again wake up Europe"
(4 comments) In the early morning hours, in Gaza, defying the Israeli reconnaissance planes, with militant optimism the Palestinian 'fowl' was crowing Victory. Could it be that Marx will accomplish another scientific prediction? In 1848, he said: "The crowing of the Gallic 'fowl' in Paris will once again wake up Europe." Is this what is taking on proletarian contours currently in Paris?

Saturday, January 31, 2009
Corporate imperialism cannot offer any lasting solution to the current crisis without annihilating itself
The global recession is deepening with disasterous social results.

Saturday, January 24, 2009
Concerning President Chavez of Venezuela, both Bush and Obama sang the same Swan's Song
(14 comments) The deepening of the global recession.

Saturday, January 17, 2009
In the Middle East, Stop the Killing of Sophia and her Children Now!
In the Middle East, background of the political conflict.

Monday, December 29, 2008
Happy New Year 2009: You cannot poison the corporate viper with its own venom!
The structural nature of the current world depression is leading to the possible danger of ending up in a devastating world war.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Greek Student Revolts and Brutal Capital Accumulation
(3 comments) A global recession on a scale not witnessed since 1929, is beginning to devour millions of workers, including thousands of members of the once opulent middle classes.

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