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Ideology can name ways an account obscures the social relations that sustain it. Applying that criticism requires an argument; identifying a belief’s origin does not refute it.
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Guided course · Module 10 · Lesson 58
What does a social system make of a person?
Marx’s accounts of alienation, commodity fetishism and ideology each describe social relations of work and exchange. The lesson distinguishes the three and separates a structural relation from a personal attitude.