Hunting for a single originator of an ideology is a reductionist mistake

Evidence

Whatever else it signals, the concept ideology makes a direct reference to the role of ideas . It also entails the proposition that ideas are not self-sufficient, that their roots lie elsewhere, that something central about ideas will be revealed if we can discover the nature of the determinacy which non -ideas exert over ideas. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 324 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Each Marxian premise alone yields reductionism or relativism; Aristotle’s racial ideology was sustained until a scientistic rationale replaced it; Ideology appears as manifest surface while its real foundations are hidden (+8 more)

Related

• Attending seriously to religious ideology saved Hill’s Marxism from economic reductionism (similarity 0.85)
• Each Marxian premise alone yields reductionism or relativism (similarity 0.84)
• Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms (similarity 0.82)
• Serious attention to ideology in its own terms strengthens rather than weakens Marxism. (similarity 0.81)
• Ideology study requires explaining how non-ideas determine ideas without slipping into idealism. (similarity 0.81)
• Ideology theory claims that non-ideas determine the content of ideas. (similarity 0.79)
• Without a concept of ideology, culture’s role in reproducing production cannot be grasped. (similarity 0.79)
• Marxism must hold determination in the last instance without falling into absolute autonomy (similarity 0.78)
• Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought. (similarity 0.78)
• Treating ideology seriously in its own terms strengthens rather than dilutes Marxist analysis (similarity 0.78)
• Conflating means with base reduces ideology to its material substrate absurdly (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Absolutized Theory misreads Marx by omitting his movement between abstraction levels #corroborates (0.50)
• Ideology theory claims that non-ideas determine the content of ideas. #exemplifies (0.40) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 324
• Ideology appears as manifest surface while its real foundations are hidden #exemplifies (0.35)
• Reductionist legal theories obscure the diverse functions of rules within a social system #corroborates (0.35) — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 649
• Weber built Protestantism and capitalism as one-sided ideal types against Marxist reductionism #exemplifies (0.35)
• Renegade radical thinkers from the tradition sought to recuperate radical theory from Marxism’s blunders #exemplifies (0.30)
• Attending seriously to religious ideology saved Hill’s Marxism from economic reductionism #corroborates (0.30)
• Intellectuals must admit ideology rather than claim value-free science #exemplifies (0.25) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 435