Akkam’s Razor

“Marx and Engels said that the ideas of the society in every period of history, ARE the ideas of the dominant class. They further argued that this dominant IDEOLOGY had a couple of different features. IDEOLOGY is a reflection of the actual conditions of socal life. This is a new twist for most people, because one of our dominant ideas - and one that is unsupportable but crucial to the ruling class - is that ideas give rise to social conditions, not that social life give risse to out ideas. Consciousness is a reflection of our lived experience. But Marx and Engels said that ideology had a power-protection function as well. It puts a mask over the real nature of society, espcially the nature of power. “

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