ABSTRACT
Ideology, as we have seen, is a mode of thought characteristic of young intellectuals. From this standpoint, the phrases ‘proletarian ideology’ and ‘bourgeois ideology’ must themselves be regarded as symptoms of ideological projection; the ideologists wish to see them selves as spokesmen not for their own restlessness and ambitions but for some class which ratifies their role, and undertakes to provide the foot-soldiers for the ideologist-commanders. Marx, of course, never regarded his own work as ideology; the proletariat, he felt, had no need for ideology but wanted only science; the bourgeoisie, in his view had, however, deserted science for ideology. Lenin did nonetheless advocate socialism as the ‘proletarian ideology’, and his usage, as against Marx’s, became prevalent; such writers as Karl Mannheim regard ideology as a class-based phenomenon.
