[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> . Besides, he was obviously right: Marx argues that,
> e,g., ideology promotes ruling class rule, a functional explanation of why
> certain ideas become dominant. There is no other plausible account of what
> Marx thinks ideology is and does.
This reduction of Marx helps explain why you are so obsessed with
establishing the existence of an "orthodox marxism" -- without it you
have nothing to argue with. There must be some half dozen or more
genera with innumerable species of "ideology," all of them compatible
with Marx's few offhand comments on the matter. In fact, it would
be possible to write many volumes of marxist social analysis without
ever using the concept of ideology. It is useful but not necessary
for marxist thought. (One could, for example, invoke the concept
of "common sense.")
You and I simply read totally different works when we read Marx.
Carrol
