SOC203H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Antonio Gramsci, The German Ideology, Civil Society
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Society can be ruled besides a monarch (i. e. think from last lecture, parliament in the middle and part of the public realm/state and private realm/civil society) Civil society as a realm for ideological struggle. Marx and gramsci on ideology: marx on ideas dismissive about the importance of revolutionary, to struggle combat ideas, two examples: The state: the state is an epiphenomenon (unwanted by product of class exploitation the belief and authority is epiphenomenon. Because he sees it as an instrument of class domination: ideology= inverted ideas. Inverted ideas to function, to conceal the class divisions of society (i. e. smoke which blurs the true intent and what"s really going on) Religion, the laws issued by the state) distorted thinking = state because we are persuaded by state because the laws are there for all when the domination of one class is always in place.
