Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Engels, Radical Change
10 Dec 2016
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Social: immigration and multiculturalism, law and order, drugs, abortion, assisted suicide. Environmental: greenhouse gas emissions, carbon pricing, pipelines. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. (cid:499) john maynard keynes, 1936 and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Destutt de tracy (1795): science of ideas. Napoleon: reaction, return to alliance with the church and tradition. Karl marx and friedrich engels (1846) on ideology. The ruling ideas of every age are the ideas of the ruling class. Ruling illusions that conceal exploitative social relations: a rationale for class oppression. False consciousness: makes the status quo seem natural. Ideology: what it is and what it does. Ball dagger, and o"neill definition: value-neutral tradition: social/political. An ideology is a fairly coherent and comprehensive set of ideas that worldview explains and evaluates social conditions, helps people understand their place in society, and provides a program for social and political action.
