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Friday Aug 08, 2025
Friday Aug 08, 2025
On Franz Jakubowski's Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism.
We focus on a very short section from Jakubowski's 1936 book, and delve into wider questions regarding ideology, social totality, and the middle classes.
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Is ideology “false, partial consciousness”?
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Is Jakubowski right that capitalism is the least ideological social form so far?
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Is it true that the middle classes only come into contact with the commodity when it is in circulation?
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How is the middle class' social position reflected in its worldview? How has this changed over 100 years?
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Links:
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Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism, Chapter: “Ideology and the Classes of Bourgeois Society” (pp. 49-52)
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The Middle-Class Leviathan: Corona, the "Fascism" Blackmail, and the Defeat of the Working Class, Elena Lange & Joshua Pickett-Depaolis
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The Rise of the Professionals, George Hoare, Compact
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