Primul concept de ideologie elaborat de Marx – intre praxis si religie

Abstract

Ideology is an extremely comprehensive, yet ambigous concept. Several aspects of the ideological thought are made obvious through discussing Marx’s first view on ideology, which is the one elaborated in *The German Ideology*. Here, ideology is understood as an imaginary construction that can be sugestively described as a distorted image in *camera obscura*. Despite the objectivity and scientifity claimed by Marx’s vision (and especialy by the subsequent Marxism-Leninism), various interpretative perspectives brought into discussion argue that, in order to gain in persuasion and to mobilize masses conscience, Marxist discourse uses, in its very heart, mythological and imaginary structures. In this way, Marxist discourse is proved to be much more closer to the fictional discourse and to the forms of religiosity, than to the science, in spite of Marx’s belief that the critique of religion is the model of any other critique.