Engel The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology and of Opportunism

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-88021-618-1
Verlag: Verlag Neuer Weg
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 251 Seiten

The second part of the book series, The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology, and the Doctrine of the Mode of Thinking, deals with the essential variants of bourgeois ideology since the reorganization of international capitalist production in the 1990s. In view of the growing capitalist crisis chaos and a widespread ideological disorientation, the emphasis in this second part is on the critique of the most important opportunist currents of the present day. Opportunism seeks to dissuade the working-class and people's movements from class struggle and scientific socialism. It exerts a harmful influence on parts of the international revolutionary and working-class movement. Every politically thinking, responsibly acting person must ask themselves today where they stand in regard to the globe-spanning capitalist system. Along with absurd wealth, it produces misery for millions and puts the basis of human life at risk. Does one howl with the wolves then and bury the dream of a liberated society for good, only because socialism had to accept a temporary defeat due to the revisionist betrayal in the Soviet Union or in China? Or does one help the gigantic progress of scientific knowledge and practical achievements in social production to break through against the maelstrom of pragmatism and opportunism, and join in the necessary revolutionary transformation of society?

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 the MLPD, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Engel, Stefan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part II: The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology and of Opportunism ...................................................................... 7

Introduction ...................................................................... 7

1. Neoliberalism's Admission of Bankruptcy ...................................................................... 11
2. Bourgeois Political Economy – in Shambles ...................................................................... 22
3. Ideological Reasons for the Disastrous Crisis Management in the COVID-19 Pandemic ...................................................................... 39
4. Neopragmatism as Ideological Foundation of Bourgeois Crisis Management ...................................................................... 53
5. The Crisis of Karl Popper's Positivism ...................................................................... 61

6. Bourgeois Digitalization Myths and the Hype about "Artificial Intelligence" ...................................................................... 73
7. The Progressing Crisis of Reformism ...................................................................... 91
8. Neorevisionism as a Futile Response to the Crisis of Modern Revisionism ...................................................................... 109

9. Neorevisionist Concealing of Traces by the Communist Party of Greece ...................................................................... 121
10. The Ideological Foundation of Chinese Social-Imperialism ...................................................................... 126

11. Abdullah Öcalan's Illusion of "Democratic Confederalism" ...................................................................... 139

12. Kim Il Sung's Juche Ideology – an Idealist Construct ...................................................................... 152
13. Enver Hoxha's Road to Revisionism in Albania ...................................................................... 167
14. The Fallacies of the Bourgeois and Petty-Bourgeois Parlor Marxists ...................................................................... 178
15. The Crisis of Trotskyism ...................................................................... 196
16. The Misery of Postmodernism ...................................................................... 208
17. The Renaissance of Fascist Ideologies on a New Foundation ...................................................................... 218
18. Conspiracy Theories and Fascist Propaganda ...................................................................... 239

Concluding Remark ...................................................................... 250

Über Autor(innen)

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 the
MLPD, 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.