Full Idea
The classic Marxist account shows liberalism as merely the ideology of the bourgeoisie.
Gist of Idea
Classic Marxists see liberalism as the ideology of the bourgeoisie
Source
Adam Gopnik (A Thousand Small Sanities [2019], 3)
Book Reference
Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.153
A Reaction
The word 'merely' does an awful lot of work in philosohy! I suspect that 'bourgeoisie' is self-defining here - as the believers in liberalism - given that lots of Marxists emerge from the middle classes.
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