Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism

Franz Jakubowski (1912-70) was an activist and a contributor to Marxist thought. Jakubowski examined Marx and Engels' turn to towards historical materialism and critiqued Karl Korsch and Karl Kautsky. After abandoning Europe in the late 1930s for the USA Jakubowski set up the Alexander Herzen Foundation, which published samizdat soviet literature.

• Introduction by Frank FurediFranz Jakubowski: an introductory note CONSCIOUSNESS AND BEINGI The Critique of Hegelian IdealismThe Critique of Feuerbach's Materialism II The Marxian problematic of base and superstructure Base SuperstructureThe Dialectical Relationship III Distortion and renewal by Marx's followersThe Distortion of the Question by the EpigonesThe Beginnings of Renewal FALSE AND CORRECT CONSCIOUSNESSIV Alienation and reificationThe Self-alienation of Man and Commodity FetishismReification in Base and Superstructure V Ideology Ideology and the Concept of the Concrete TotalityIdeology and the Classes of Bourgeois Society VI Proletarian Class consciousnessThe Proletariat as Subject-Object in CapitalismClass Ideology and Class ConsciousnessMarxism as Ideology and as Humanism NotesIndex