ABSTRACT
Any account of the ideological terminus in Marxism is deeply concealed in hints attaching to the idea of praxis. The terminus of ideological striving is freedom. Mankind bursts through the barriers of structural domination and becomes at last free to control its destiny and express its human essence. One way, then, to explore the ideological terminus is to consider a human life without structure, or at least, without the structural domination which is believed systematically to frustrate human endeavors. A second way may be found by taking as our lead the triadic structure of the ideological model. The ideological terminus is often plausibly presented in terms of a "good society", as the completion of the ideal endeavors we now entertain: free, equal, and good. The ideological terminus is not, then, a state, and the most acute exponents of ideology have been perfectly clear on the point.
