Reinhard Opitz
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Reinhard Opitz (1934—April 3, 1986) was a German left-wing intellectual and social scientist.
A prolific writer and theorist, Opitz, who had a PhD in philosophy, spent most of his working life on the fringes of political movements. The majority of his writings forcefully argued the correctness of finer points in the works of Karl Marx. Opitz's special contribution to the Marxist theory on the development of consciousness was his thesis that members of the German middle classes had acquired a "falsified" consciousness. The completed essay, entitled On Genesis and Prevention of Fascism, appeared in the leftist German academic publication Das Argument in Autumn 1974.
Reinhard Opitz died of cancer in Cologne, where he had lived for twenty years. He was 51 years old.
Thirteen years after his death, Rainer Rilling and Ilina Fach published Liberalism –Fascism –Integration (1999), a three-volume edition (in German [ISBN 3-924684-88-X], 1490 pages) of the most relevant pieces Opitz had written and published. ]
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