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A prolific writer and theorist, Opitz, who had a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy, spent the greater part of his working life on the fringes of political movements.
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A prolific writer and theorist, Opitz, who had a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy, spent the greater part of his working life on the fringes of political movements.
While the majority of his writings forcefully argue the correctness of finer points in the works of Karl Marx, his most widely remembered personal contribution to Marxist theory was the "falsified" consciousness position. Reinhard Opitz died of cancer in Cologne, where he had lived for twenty years. He was 51 years old.
The completed essay, entitled On Genesis and Prevention of Fascism, appeared in the autumn 1974 issue of the leftist German academic publication Das Argument. In 1999, thirteen years after his death, Rainer Rilling and Ilina Fach published Liberalism—Fascism—Integration (X), a three-volume edition (in German, 1490 pages) of the most relevant pieces Opitz had written and published.
Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund.