Part IV: The Crisis of the Bourgeois Social Sciences, Religion and Culture

Introduction 7

1. The Crisis of Religion 12
1.1. Religion as Historically First Ideological Foundation of Class Societies 12
1.2. The Crisis of Religion, and the Dialectical-Materialist Criticism of Religion 22
1.3. Anthroposophy – a Semi-Religious and Elitist Philosophy of Life 35

2. The Unscientific Nature of the Bourgeois Social Sciences 41
2.1. The Fantasies of Bourgeois Economics 41
2.2. The Dilemma of the Bourgeois Agricultural Sciences 50
2.3. Bourgeois Historiography Degenerates into Revision of Historical Facts 58
2.4. The Tightrope Act of Bourgeois Pedagogy 68
2.5. Manipulation of Public Opinion by Bourgeois Sociology 82
2.6. Questionable Theory and Practice of Bourgeois Jurisprudence 91

3. The Crisis of Bourgeois Culture 107
3.1. The Ambivalent Role of Culture in Bourgeois Society 107
3.2. The Part Played by Language in the Struggle of World Outlooks 117
3.3. Beethoven's Music as a Product of the Enlightenment 129
3.4. Creative Potential and Crisis of the Visual and Performing Arts 134
3.5. Imperialist Sports Culture as Vehicle of Bourgeois Ideology 146
3.6. The Fundamental Fiction of the "Free Media" 159
3.7. Increasing Decadence in Bourgeois Mass Culture 172

4. The Necessity of Further Developing the Proletarian World Outlook and the Doctrine of the Mode of Thinking 186