Michaela Lakova

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Brief synopsis on Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (still draft)

In “The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas Marx and Engels argue that what makes one class ruling class is the ruling ideas of its dominance.
The ruling class is empowering of being the producer, regulator and distributor of ruling ideas. Whenever the ruling ideas reveal to or benefits the general society interests then they became form of ideal – rational, valid or truthful to the masses. Therefore every new class achieves domination built upon the expended foundations of the ruling class before. Marx and Engels introduced three predominant ways for creating an illusion that philosophy and ideology exist separately for politics in the history. First, the ideas are separated from those who rule into empirical or material condition of how they appear. Secondly the ideas are given “mystical connection ” behold them as “self – determined” and then they are personified into particular persona -"the thinker".

Synopsis on Subaltern Classes by Gramsky --->

Culture hegemony

Cultural hegemony reflects upon power, propaganda and brainwashing. Or the inevitable dominance of certain “structures” representing or manipulating certain ideas/ ideologies into ideas which serve to them. The propaganda works on unconscious, invisible level through constant media brainwashing where these ideas are passively accepted or taken for granted.