The essential characteristic of Marx and Engels’ s ideological theory is critical, but it contains the negation of affirmation, transformation and outlet and its purport is to obtain the “truth” from breaking the “illusion”, so as to imply the dimension of construction in the critique. Specifically, Marx and Engels’ s ideological critique is not aimed at the logicalized holistic world outlook, but touches the reality of social relations behind the concept in the critique of idealistic world outlook. It is not to find a way to overcome “false consciousness” by abandoning ideology, but to explore a scientific approach to surpass the falsity of ideology through the historical investigation of class rule and class consciousness. Instead of declaring ideology as “natural falsehood”, it focuses on the specific analysis of the modern proletariat and confirms the historical status of proletarian ideology.

Editor: Zhong Yao、Zheng Yifan

From:Studies on Marxism.2021.No.12.