The German Ideology

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The German Ideology is a foundational philosophical work by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that develops their materialist conception of history and critiques contemporary German philosophy and ideology.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
non-fiction book
philosophical work
argues consciousness is determined by social being
ideology reflects material class interests
author Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx
basedOn critique of Hegelian idealism
countryOfOrigin Germany
critiques idealism in German philosophy
describes history as a process driven by material production
firstPublishedIn 1932
genre Marxist theory
philosophy
political theory
hasPart chapter on Feuerbach
chapter on Saint Bruno
chapter on Saint Max
chapter on True Socialism
influenced Marxist historiography
Western Marxism
critical theory
social history
influencedBy Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Ludwig Feuerbach
Young Hegelians
keyConcept base and superstructure
class struggle
communism
division of labor
forces of production
mode of production
relations of production
ruling class and ruling ideas
language German
mainSubject critique of Bruno Bauer
critique of German philosophy
critique of Ludwig Feuerbach
critique of Max Stirner
critique of Young Hegelians
critique of ideology
historical materialism
materialist conception of history
movement Marxism
philosophicalSchool historical materialism
publicationStatus posthumous
publisherOfFirstCompleteEdition Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow
writtenIn 1845
1846


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