Ideology

Ideology! Consciousness does not determine life, life determines consciousness!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consciousness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Karl Marx
• Friedrich Engels
• ideology
• 'false consciousness'
• religion
• ideas
• social relations
• material circumstances
• dominating group of people
• theologians
• philosophy
• ideologist

[prolelog]

In considering your videos on both Marx's thought as well as those attacking religious ideologies, I wonder why you bother to even address the latter, considering that religion is--if I read my Marx correctly--the wrong answer to the right question, so to speak. Isn't it the Liberal rationalism of the bourgeois mind which attempts to understand religion simply as a mental block, when it is the very essence of its communalism which it draws members?

[dewinthemorning]

@prolelog You are right, Marx said that religion is not a result of an aberration in the mental process, a mistake of consciousness, but a social product of the existing social relations, and servitude, themselves reflecting existing relations in production (private property of the means of production).

I am not creating a movement, tactics to fight the existing unjust social order. I am in the world of ideas, I talk about the ideas I consider correct, and I make videos correcting wrong ideas

[Trotskisty]

@dewinthemorning:

Remember the XI-th (and last) of Marx' "Theses on Feuerbach":

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."

marxists .org/archive/marx/works/1845/t­heses/theses.htm

[dewinthemorning]

@Trotskisty I quote that sentence at the end of my video "Karl Marx - Criticism of Religion".

No movement can be started, nor any practice entered into, without the people knowing about Marx's philosophy. So that's what I am doing here, in my small way, bringing it to the open. And I am pleased to say, there is continued interest to my videos about Marx.

[Trotskisty]

@dewinthemorning:

The point is to engage in the proper praxis which does not rely solely on the intellectual side of the labor. But under the circumstances, I do not begrudge you your method of work, here on Youtube.

[themiddleman009]

@dewinthemorning its sad you didnt get the your mad bro reffurence :[ its such a popullar meme. i will have s end you some troll science for you to understand

[dewinthemorning]

@themiddleman009 Mad? You are kidding! I appreciated your "trollish unrealated responce" and laughed, because it's funny. I am sorry I seem so uptight. I am fun in real life, just a bit insecure on you tube.

My accent is not Russian, You'll never guess what accent I have. :)

[themiddleman009]

@dewinthemorning :0 (shit just got real) the remark i had made was a bull headed poke at your acsent (witch i think is russian although i maybe wrong) the comment though should NOT be taken as a serious statement rather a trollish unrealated responce. im sorry ive desracted from the subject at hand with my childish remarks but as the great Eduard Khil said "trolololo". in the end i would hope your not mad....bro

[dewinthemorning]

@themiddleman009 I understood your metaphore, but It's not a remark about the content of the video. There are things that I don't agree with Marx entirely about, but I do think that ideas that predominate in a society, are determined by the social relations - you know, who possesses how much (and has more power and influence), who is working for who, and so on. And I don't mean separate individuals, but what Marx called class.

(I am making another video on this topic).