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Critique of the marxist conception of ideology

Jakov Jukić

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.

Keywords

critique; marxism; ideology

Hrčak ID:

85573

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/85573

Publication date:

15.9.1989.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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