Marx’s 1859 Preface and German Ideology anchored the Institute’s shared theoretical creed.

Evidence

All the authors enthusiastically declared their belief in the materialist conception of history in the sense of the general results summed up in Marx’s famous `Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’ and the Feuerbach section of The German Ideology. None of them put any hopes in the working class. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 142

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pins down exactly which Marx texts define ‘the materialist conception of history’ as the circle used the term.
• XREF: connects to: Marx’s 1859 Preface condensed the whole base and superstructure problem into one paragraph
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marx’s 1859 Preface condensed the whole base and superstructure problem into one paragraph

Broader Connections

• Marx’s 1859 Preface condensed the whole base and superstructure problem into one paragraph #expands (0.85)