/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.

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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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  OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations (FULL)

  
  


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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