ABSTRACT
This chapter has two purposes, as I move from the poignant facticity of human rights practice, to a critique of the theoretical underpinnings of international law and human rights.
First, to ask the question: Why is it important to practise ideology critique in international law? I reflect on the work of Susan Marks, an outstanding contemporary Marxist international legal theorist, and author of a well-known book and several important shorter texts on ideology critique.1
