Lamanov
8th January 2006, 21:21
There's a fine line which divides ideology from theory itself, being that theory is the depiction of objective truth. Whilst theory is the product of tendency towards objective, ideology is the product of subjective tendency and position within totality, and as subjective can come into conflict with objective, ideology falls into contradiction from which it cannot undo itself.
Ideology, understood as such, is the contemplative voice of the actual material cause of contradiction, to which it serves as a justification.
It reinforces continuity against motion, it demands order against change, and finally, it takes the language of progressive action and turns it into the language of regressive passivity as contradiction itself separates theory from praxis in the spectacle where theory is mute and praxis is dead.
Needless to say, ideology is reinforced by those that need it and who have the material capacity to reinforce it, by those who as such in need exist upon the material contradiction itself. Thus, it is a class privilege.
When capitalism revolutionized itself in the form of state-capitalism (USSR), Marxism was materialized as an ideology, and thus, it lost itself in the spectre of political assumptions where it came into conflict with itself by becoming a language of the new ruling class. It ceased to be itself. It ceased to be Marxism. But did it cease to be? Did theory negate itself with ideology? As the whole official bourgeois thought tries to deny it and as it constantly offers proofs and facts pointing to the obvious death of Marxian ideology, it fails to become conscious of the fact that it does not attack Marxism which is, but Marxism which is not! It must not be, so it indulges itself with the attack on the ideology of Marxism which itself lies in the irreconcilable contradiction to the revolutionary scientific theory of Marxism, not knowing that it only serves to the utter negation of itself, and as the strongest confirmation of the theory which was born as its sibling from the same material contradictions which exist to this day, and in which direction they both serve - first as an ideology of this essentially contradictory system, and second as a theory which depicts its immanent death. So the answer is no, Marxism exists as long as capitalism itself exists, and the actual contradiction in relations which created it. There is no way to transcend it. Any argument against it is a hopeless regression to the illusions of dead past. Actual objective thought, a tendency towards reality of social totality is Marxism itself, and as such it becomes conscious of itself through actual unification of theory and praxis, reality and though in the form of most brutal self-criticism, as a product of the progressive tendency of the whole society led by the proletariat through class struggle.
As for the ideology of Marxism it lost all of its validity when conditions of its creation were understood and transcended. Marxism as a science of revolutionary change, turned against any ideology, especially against the one using its own language, negates the possibility of becoming an ideology because it is self-conscious and aware of its own immanent self-destruction, parallel to the destruction of capitalism itself.
Only way to negate Marxism is through negation of capitalism.
(First 2 lines borrowed from Philosophy, other topic.)
Ideology, understood as such, is the contemplative voice of the actual material cause of contradiction, to which it serves as a justification.
It reinforces continuity against motion, it demands order against change, and finally, it takes the language of progressive action and turns it into the language of regressive passivity as contradiction itself separates theory from praxis in the spectacle where theory is mute and praxis is dead.
Needless to say, ideology is reinforced by those that need it and who have the material capacity to reinforce it, by those who as such in need exist upon the material contradiction itself. Thus, it is a class privilege.
When capitalism revolutionized itself in the form of state-capitalism (USSR), Marxism was materialized as an ideology, and thus, it lost itself in the spectre of political assumptions where it came into conflict with itself by becoming a language of the new ruling class. It ceased to be itself. It ceased to be Marxism. But did it cease to be? Did theory negate itself with ideology? As the whole official bourgeois thought tries to deny it and as it constantly offers proofs and facts pointing to the obvious death of Marxian ideology, it fails to become conscious of the fact that it does not attack Marxism which is, but Marxism which is not! It must not be, so it indulges itself with the attack on the ideology of Marxism which itself lies in the irreconcilable contradiction to the revolutionary scientific theory of Marxism, not knowing that it only serves to the utter negation of itself, and as the strongest confirmation of the theory which was born as its sibling from the same material contradictions which exist to this day, and in which direction they both serve - first as an ideology of this essentially contradictory system, and second as a theory which depicts its immanent death. So the answer is no, Marxism exists as long as capitalism itself exists, and the actual contradiction in relations which created it. There is no way to transcend it. Any argument against it is a hopeless regression to the illusions of dead past. Actual objective thought, a tendency towards reality of social totality is Marxism itself, and as such it becomes conscious of itself through actual unification of theory and praxis, reality and though in the form of most brutal self-criticism, as a product of the progressive tendency of the whole society led by the proletariat through class struggle.
As for the ideology of Marxism it lost all of its validity when conditions of its creation were understood and transcended. Marxism as a science of revolutionary change, turned against any ideology, especially against the one using its own language, negates the possibility of becoming an ideology because it is self-conscious and aware of its own immanent self-destruction, parallel to the destruction of capitalism itself.
Only way to negate Marxism is through negation of capitalism.
(First 2 lines borrowed from Philosophy, other topic.)