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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, Mérida, 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);
Teoría-Praxis de la Revolución-Emancipación (1983).

I also made contributions to other books:
"Raíces históricas y socio-económicas de la ideología del racismo: Sudáfrica 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:
"¿Qué es el Socialismo Científico Filosóficco, el ;arxismo?" and "Venezuela: Sin Teoría no habrá ni partido político 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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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Alan Woods: No light bulb will shine, no wheel will move, without the kind permission of the workers of this world
The Venezuelan working people have to take up the fight against the internal adversary, whilst the external threat to the Bolivarian Revolution has to be confronted by setting up armed people's militias.

Monday, October 26, 2009
Do we see all over dictatorial ghosts, not the real ones right under our noses?
(3 comments) Michael Moore, instead of disseminating hoaxes about Venezuela, please, please produce true documentals about the mortal coming agony of mankind, of world fascism.

Friday, September 18, 2009
Venezuela: The Principle of Hope Against Global United States Military Bases
Our clarion call is the New, a new logic, science, philosophy and wisdom, that is, the New per se. To create this we need no Manhattan project for arms of mass destruction: we only need to live the Truth 'praxically', to study reality theoretically, and to surpass the bourgeois, capitalist, world revolution with creative emancipation, with emancipatory creation.

Monday, June 29, 2009
Military Coup in Honduras: Global Terrorism showing its true face
Concerning the Coup in Honduras.

Saturday, February 28, 2009
Scientific Prediction of the Big Crash of the USA already three years ago
The historic truth is simply that the corporate wealth produced and accumulated in a few hands over the previous decades cannot valorize itself anymore, neither in production nor in circulation.

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Coming Workers' Riots in the Metropolis: Carte Blanche for Global Fascism?
Will Workers' riots break out in the metropolitan countries?

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