This is one of your very best in my opinion. I have been struggling to understand Marx's relationship to ideology for a while and this clarified the hell out of it.
Another terrific entry. It’d be interesting to to go a step further to better understand the ramifications of adopting the “ideology as competing worldviews” approach. The Jacobin crowd are on record as supporting the neo-Gramscian theories of Laclau and Mouffe who take this version of ideology to its logical conclusion. Is discourse theory designed to keep one trapped on the plane of bourgeois politics?
I agree , and you make an important point. However this doesn't mean, in todays world where every one claims an ideology , a core set of ideas which they adhere to, that ideologies cannot be discussed. You don't make this claim .As you say, for many of todays Marxists Marxism is an ideology. An ideology which reproduces the current social order is natural. Would you see ideologies which claim to revolutionize society in a positive direction as fraudulent ? Is the idea of revolution therefore fraudulent in a certain sense ? My comment may be off topic.Thanks for your entry.
Yes there is only one ideology, bourgeois ideology, and Marxism as well as proletarian socialism more generally is included in that ideology. There is only one difference, relative historical self-critical awareness by Marxism of bourgeois ideology. Lenin understood this.
This is one of your very best in my opinion. I have been struggling to understand Marx's relationship to ideology for a while and this clarified the hell out of it.
Another terrific entry. It’d be interesting to to go a step further to better understand the ramifications of adopting the “ideology as competing worldviews” approach. The Jacobin crowd are on record as supporting the neo-Gramscian theories of Laclau and Mouffe who take this version of ideology to its logical conclusion. Is discourse theory designed to keep one trapped on the plane of bourgeois politics?
This idea has the potential to reposition a person's relationship to the universe. It is profound.
I agree , and you make an important point. However this doesn't mean, in todays world where every one claims an ideology , a core set of ideas which they adhere to, that ideologies cannot be discussed. You don't make this claim .As you say, for many of todays Marxists Marxism is an ideology. An ideology which reproduces the current social order is natural. Would you see ideologies which claim to revolutionize society in a positive direction as fraudulent ? Is the idea of revolution therefore fraudulent in a certain sense ? My comment may be off topic.Thanks for your entry.
Yes there is only one ideology, bourgeois ideology, and Marxism as well as proletarian socialism more generally is included in that ideology. There is only one difference, relative historical self-critical awareness by Marxism of bourgeois ideology. Lenin understood this.