ABSTRACT
The concept of ideology not only contains the essence of Marx's contribution to the general science of history, but it reveals most exactly his innovation in the particular science and art of revolution. Marx's word "ideology" was invented by Napoleon Bonaparte for the express purpose of deriding revolutionary idealism. Marx took the hard-headed practical realistic sagacity of hard-headed practical men of the world, and introduced it into the ranks of the revolution. Marx achieved this hard-headed condition, as seen, by projecting his own emotional idealism into the external world. It is impossible, to defined ideology as thinking which is unconscious of its motive, to let Marxism continue to hide its motive in an animistic philosophy of the universe. Marxism as a system of dialectic metaphysics is ideological, just as all metaphysics is, but it is certainly the tendency and the true end of Marxism to become a science.
