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ABSTRACT
Marx’s general theory of ideology stresses the necessary connectedness of social structure and social belief. But it also produces two more specific theses: that the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas; and that different classes tend to produce different forms of class consciousness. This paper traces the history of these notions in communist Marxism and in Western Marxism.
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Notes on Contributor
Andrew Milner is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His publications include John Milton and the English Revolution (1981), Cultural Materialism (1993), Class (1999), Re-imagining Cultural Studies (2002), Contemporary Cultural Theory (2002), Literature, Culture and Society (2005), Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction (2010), Locating Science Fiction (2012) and Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism (2018).