The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch

[bloody_capitalist_sham]

I was listening to an MP3 by the SWP

And the lecture was explaining this concept, but also that Ideas of the working class can form to oppose the ruling class ideas.



The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its dominance.

- German Ideology

So, my question is, how do we explain the formation of ideas of working class without dialectics.

Because this lecture said it was a "contradiction", dialectical terminology i believe.

[Hit The North]

Comrade, if you could post a link to the mp3 we could all listen to it and have a discussion on the basis of it.

:)