Critique of the marxist conception of ideology

Abstract

A careful examination of the marxist critique of ideology reveals that in marxism itself there are many ideological presuppositions. These are reductionism, a subject-matter definition of false consciousness, the privilege of a veracious personal cognition and the claim of a collective existence in a classless society. No wonder that such a conception of (ideology experienced a debacle when attempts were made to realise it in history. The example of Lenin, Stalin and Mao Cedung are most eloquent. Instead of abolishing ideology, such societies have become the instruments of an overwhelming ideologisation

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