Table of Contents

introduction by Frank Furedi
Franz Jakubowski: an introductory note

CONSCIOUSNESS AND BEING
I The Critique of Hegelian Idealism
The Critique of Feuerbach's Materialism

II The Marxian problematic of base and superstructure
Base
Superstructure
The Dialectical Relationship

III Distortion and renewal by Marx's followers
The Distortion of the Question by the Epigones
The Beginnings of Renewal

FALSE AND CORRECT CONSCIOUSNESS
IV Alienation and reification
The Self-alienation of Man and Commodity Fetishism
Reification in Base and Superstructure

V Ideology
Ideology and the Concept of the Concrete Totality
Ideology and the Classes of Bourgeois Society

VI Proletarian Class consciousness
The Proletariat as Subject-Object in Capitalism
Class Ideology and Class Consciousness
Marxism as Ideology and as Humanism

Notes
Index

About the Author

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.