Everyone looks at the world according to their own
perspective. How one person views the world does not necessarily mean that the
other person looks at it the same way.
These differentiating points of views quite often lead to conflicts and
disagreements. On a larger scale, these varying perspectives are translated
into views that directly impact the running of a state and our lives as
individuals living in a particular community or society. How we see things on a
state or systemic level, and how political ideas are presented to us reflects
our political ideology. Ideology in itself can be described as “a set of
conscious and unconscious ideas which make up an individual’s goals,
expectations and motivations”- add political to it and the word means “a
certain set of ideals principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social
movement, institution, class, and or large group that explains how society
should work, and offers some political and cultural blueprint for a certain
social order.”
Constructivist theorists argue that all of the material
structures that we are surrounded with, like the military, are important only
because we have been ideologically led to believe that through ideational
structures. Similarly, according to the
Marxist theory, the state inculcates a false consciousness within the mind of
the ruled class. They are taught to believe a certain truth, which eventually
becomes their reality. The capitalist society that the contemporary world is transitioning
towards is fed on these ideas, which is the underlying cause for a society that
has no imagination or individualism.
I believe the Marxist theory of a proletariat revolution is
what deems necessary in today’s world. With
consumerism taking over the human instincts with the help of the bourgeoisie
states, the proletariat must redeem its humanity and establish control and
equality, for the sake of its coming generations.
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