The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology and of Anticommunism

Justifiably, more and more people are losing confidence in the dominant politics. But what lessons do the workers and the masses in the world draw from the extensive crises? Bourgeois ideology has lost its power of attraction and is in deep crisis. An ideological struggle over interpretation and conclusions has broken out. Since the open crisis of reformism and modern revisionism, anticommunism has become the main obstacle in the building of the consciousness of the masses. However, anticommunism itself is in crisis, causing it to be constantly modified. This book follows the conviction that the time is ripe for an ideological offensive of scientific socialism.

The books, Götterdämmerung Over the "New World Order," Dawn of the International Socialist Revolution, and Catastrophe Alert! What Is to Be Done Against the Willful Destruction of the Unity of Humanity and Nature? contain the analysis of the reorganization of international capitalist production as new phase of imperialism, along with the conclusions for the strategy and tactics of the international socialist revolution. This book has the task to complete this by dealing with the ideological side. It is the first of four volumes of the work, The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology, and the Doctrine of the Mode of Thinking, which will be published as Nos. 36 to 39 of the Revolutionärer Weg series.



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.



The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology, and the Doctrine of the Mode of Thinking

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

Part I: The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology

and of Anticommunism ....................................... 20

1. Bourgeois and Proletarian Ideology ................................. 20

2. The Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology ...................................... 37

3. The Crisis of Anticommunism .......................................... 47

3.1.The Deep Crisis of Anticommunism after the Second World War ..................................... 48

3.2.Revitalization of Openly Reactionary Anticommunism by the Adenauer Government ........................................ 49

3.3.The Emergence of a "Democratic Variant" of Anticommunism ..................................... 53

3.4.The Road of the SPD to an Anticommunist "People's Party" .......................................................... 57

3.5.The New Eastern Policy of the SPD and the Founding of the DKP ................................................ 61

3.6.The "Critical Anticommunism" of the "Frankfurt School" ..................................................... 65

3.7.The Petty-Bourgeois "ML Movement" and the Anticommunism of the "Greens" ...................... 74

3.8."Left" and Modern Anticommunism ....................... 81

3.9.Extension of Modern Anticommunism in the Process of German Reunification ................. 87

3.10.The System of the Petty-Bourgeois Mode of Thinking as Method of Government ......... 95

3.11.Chancellor Merkel's Method of Government ........ 102

3.12.Propagandistic Anticommunism and Rational Anticommunism .............................. 105

3.13.The Munich Trial Against the Communist Ideology of Freedom .......................... 117

3.14.The Anticommunist Fable of "Left Anti-Semitism" ............................................. 124

3.15.Anti-Communist Orientation of Social Movements .................................................. 133

3.16.The Reactionary-Fascist Anticommunism of Donald Trump .................................................... 139

4.The Fascist Ideology and the Transformation of Bourgeois Antifascism ................................................ 151

5.Rise and Fall of Modern Revisionism ............................ 164

6.Proletarian Ideology in the Building of Socialism ...................................................... 185