The Crisis of Bourgeois Social Sciences, Religion and Culture

Stefan Engel, Monika Gärtner-Engel (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2025
Verlag Neuer Weg
978-3-88021-724-9 (ISBN)

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Crises, in ever quicker succession, are shaking capitalist society: Corona pandemic, deep setbacks for the world economy, social emergency, the initiated global environmental catastrophe, the growing threat of world war, or the increasing danger of fascism.The bourgeois social sciences, religion and culture try to give answers, but are themselves affected by the state of crisis. They are far from "ideology-free" but instead spread the bourgeois worldview! This book espouses the ideology of the exploited and oppressed of this world and their justified cultural, ecological and social needs. It develops an unsparing critique of bourgeois-decadent culture while at the same time defending all valuable and progressive products of human culture. The book develops liberating visions of how a socialist society will solve the issues raised in a forward-looking way.This is the fourth volume of the book series, The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology, and the Doctrine of the Mode of Thinking.

Stefan Engel, born in 1954, is a trained mechanic and works today as a free publicist. Since 1968 he has been actively involved in the building of theMLPD, and since 1975 has been one of its leading representatives. From the late 1980s up until 2016 he held positions of responsibility in the international revolutionary working-class movement.Monika Gärtner-Engel is MLPD Internationalism Secretary and Main Coordinator of the revolutionary world organization ICOR. She is co-author of the book, New Perspectives for the Liberation of Women, and an acknowledged representative of the international militant women's movement.

Part IV: The Crisis of the Bourgeois Social Sciences, Religion and Culture Introduction 71. The Crisis of Religion 121.1. Religion as Historically First Ideological Foundation of Class Societies 121.2. The Crisis of Religion, and the Dialectical-Materialist Criticism of Religion 221.3. Anthroposophy - a Semi-Religious and Elitist Philosophy of Life 352. The Unscientific Nature of the Bourgeois Social Sciences 412.1. The Fantasies of Bourgeois Economics 412.2. The Dilemma of the Bourgeois Agricultural Sciences 502.3. Bourgeois Historiography Degenerates into Revision of Historical Facts 582.4. The Tightrope Act of Bourgeois Pedagogy 682.5. Manipulation of Public Opinion by Bourgeois Sociology 822.6. Questionable Theory and Practice of Bourgeois Jurisprudence 913. The Crisis of Bourgeois Culture 1073.1. The Ambivalent Role of Culture in Bourgeois Society 1073.2. The Part Played by Language in the Struggle of World Outlooks 1173.3. Beethoven's Music as a Product of the Enlightenment 1293.4. Creative Potential and Crisis of the Visual and Performing Arts 1343.5. Imperialist Sports Culture as Vehicle of Bourgeois Ideology 1463.6. The Fundamental Fiction of the "Free Media" 1593.7. Increasing Decadence in Bourgeois Mass Culture 1724. The Necessity of Further Developing the Proletarian World Outlook and the Doctrine of the Mode of Thinking 186

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2025
Verlagsort	Essen
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 200 mm
Gewicht	250 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Schlagworte	Anticommunism • Capitalism • Crisis • Engels • Ideology • Marx • Natural science • Phylosophy • Revolution • Socialism • Society
ISBN-10	3-88021-724-6 / 3880217246
ISBN-13	978-3-88021-724-9 / 9783880217249
Zustand	Neuware