POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bourgeoisie

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: Martin Breaugh

Document Summary

For him the term was to replace the term philosophy. Napoleon decide to wage war (a war of words) and attacked the society of ideology; After this ideology will be seen as a form of abstract knowledge, a distorted interpretation of reality. 40 years after the invention of the term marx and engels will take up the cause and will argue that ideologies due exist and that they are a necessary term through which we can understand political reality. Marx and engels will tell us that an ideology is in fact an interpretation of the movement of reality and its given by a particular social force (social class) Behind every ideology there is a social class. Understanding ideology must understand the social class behind it. A perspective that is particular to a social force, the force of ideology is to elevate that particular force to a universal one. All ideologies elevate a particular into a universal.