/505/ Reading Club: Classes in Bourgeois Society

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.

• Is ideology “false, partial consciousness”?

• Is Jakubowski right that capitalism is the least ideological social form so far?

• Is it true that the middle classes only come into contact with the commodity when it is in circulation?

• How is the middle class' social position reflected in its worldview? How has this changed over 100 years?

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Links:

• Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism, Chapter: “Ideology and the Classes of Bourgeois Society” (pp. 49-52)

• OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations (FULL)

• The Middle-Class Leviathan: Corona, the "Fascism" Blackmail, and the Defeat of the Working Class, Elena Lange & Joshua Pickett-Depaolis

• The Rise of the Professionals, George Hoare, Compact