"the effective brainwashing power of the corporate media's powerful influence."
That's not how ideology works.
Ideology is a worldview that's accurate from the standpoint of a given class. Another class may have a view that's different from or even directly contradictory to the other, and that's not because one is "brainwashed" (or even necessarily wrong) but because the world appears differently depending on where you stand in it.
Nobody can be reasonably expected to have a universally valid viewpoint as long as the world is structured to present different and mutually exclusive truths to competing classes.
I'll grant that plenty of self-described "Marxists" are horribly unclear on this. I explain that by observing that people generally a) don't like to read, b) like to invoke authoritative names to back up their intuitive certainty that everyone else is a fool.
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Date: 24/1/12 22:46 (UTC)That's not how ideology works.
Ideology is a worldview that's accurate from the standpoint of a given class. Another class may have a view that's different from or even directly contradictory to the other, and that's not because one is "brainwashed" (or even necessarily wrong) but because the world appears differently depending on where you stand in it.
Nobody can be reasonably expected to have a universally valid viewpoint as long as the world is structured to present different and mutually exclusive truths to competing classes.
I'll grant that plenty of self-described "Marxists" are horribly unclear on this. I explain that by observing that people generally a) don't like to read, b) like to invoke authoritative names to back up their intuitive certainty that everyone else is a fool.