SOSC 2560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Orthodox Marxism, Louis Althusser, False Consciousness
5 Apr 2017
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Ideology is theorized as a superstructural element through which the economic base is represented by and in consciousness but in a distorted form. The idea of a revolutionary practice" enables us to practically solve the contradiction: a non-ideological consciousness . Althusser: they have relative autonomy from the base. Western marxism false consciousness & right reality right consciousness & false reality cultural hegemony is that one ideology with its specific interpretation which dominates all other ideologies in civil-political society. Marx in capital: they do this without being aware of it . For marx, the misperception or the fallacy here is on the side of the being and not of knowledge. Althusser"s theory of ideology: ideology is a functional requirement of society, which constitutes subject in their imaginary relations of their world. Louis althusser"s theory of ideology (1918 1990) the third element: base & super-structure + gramsci: civil-political society, .
