Against Ideology?

August 11, 2010 at 7:42 am · Filed under Read All About It, posted by


While religious fundamentalism is still a powerful force, ideology seems to be on the wane as a motor of secular revolutionary activity. The days are long past when groups like the Communist Party could command millions of adherents worldwide. Should anarchists celebrate this decline, positioning ourselves atop the crashing wave of history? Is ideology itself the problem? But what would it mean to be against ideology?

Last May, a CrimethInc. agent was invited to speak about “The End of Ideology and the Future Events” on a panel at the 2010 Babylonia festival in Athens, Greece. We’ve polished the notes from that discussion into a text exploring what ideology is, what it could mean to oppose it, and what could replace it as a foundation for resistance.

Read the full analysis here.

Isaac said,

August 22, 2010 @ 6:42 pm

This might be my favorite thing you’ve ever written. But I would really like Slavoj Zizek to be kidnapped and forced at gunpoint to publicly debate the CrimethInc agents who authored it.

kowalskil said,

August 24, 2010 @ 6:02 pm

You wrote: “Marx insisted that ideology is determined by who controls the means of production, and functions to blind the proletariat to their own exploitation. But isn’t Marxism the ideology par excellence, that has blinded untold millions?”

Yes indeed. Let me read the article more carefully again.

Ludwik Kowalski, the author of

“Diary of a Former Communist: Thoughts, Feelings, Reality.”

The link to this FREE on-line book is

      http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html

It is my autobiography, based on a diary kept between 1946 and 2004 (in the USSR, Poland, France and the USA).

Please share the link with others who might be interested. I hope someone will review these books somewhere. Let me know.

Ludwik Kowalski
Professor Emeritus
Montclair State University (USA)
kowalskiL@mail.montclair.edu

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