Single Idea 23135

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism]

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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Idea 23128 The opposite of liberalism is dogmatism [Gopnik]

Idea 23138 Modern left-wingers criticise liberalism's control of culture [Gopnik]