POL SCI 112C Lecture 9: German Ideology
19 Feb 2019
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Marx replaces the notion that history is the development of ideas with the development of material life. Everything in human societies stems from the fact that humans are the being that produces for its existence and needs. He recognises humans have a great deal of agency and innovation. But mop is the stage on which we create or innovate. It generates possibilities for our thinking, willing and action. Not determined by production itself, but shaped by the institutions and abilities enabled by the current mode of production. Ideology for marx is not just a worldview or body of thought: reality, the way things are really organised, the way power really is, is systematically distorted or inverted. So that the status quo is also legitimated. Why does the state proclaim us free and equal when in our actual lives we experience non-universality: 154: At first, there is no such thing as ideology.
