Ideas can only be dissolved by overturning material social relations, not criticism.

Evidence

Unlike the idealist view of history, it does not to have look for a category in each period, but remains constantly on the real ground of history; it does not explain practice from the idea but explains the formation of ideas from material practice, and accordingly comes to the conclusion that all the forms of and products of consciousness can be dissolved, not by intellectual criticism, not by resolution into “self-consciousness,” or by transformation into “apparitions,” “spectres,” “fancies,” etc., but only by the practical overthrow of the actual social relations which gave rise to this idealist humbug; that not criticism but revolution is the driving force of history, as well as religion, philosophy, and all other types of theory. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 482

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• SEED: A stark claim to test in economic thought: if ideas are dissolved only by practical overthrow, what does that imply for reformist and intellectual labor?

Related

• Ideologies can shatter traditional ideas and empower new ones in a receptive class (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (similarity 0.83)
• Ideological forms are where people become conscious of material conflicts and fight them out. (similarity 0.81)
• Ideology expresses lived imaginary relations rather than actual conditions of existence. (similarity 0.81)
• Ideologies are material relations enacted through institutions and practices (similarity 0.80)
• Ideology disrupts predicted historical processes and enables revolutions (similarity 0.80)
• Ideologies connect to subjects through contingent, breakable articulations rather than necessity (similarity 0.80)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation serves expanded reproduction of capitalism, not just class dominance. (similarity 0.80)
• Revolutionary consciousness arises from cultural idiom, not from productive relations (similarity 0.79)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation functions to reproduce capitalist production relations (similarity 0.79)
• Intellectual history advances through uneven breaks, not traditions or clean ruptures (similarity 0.79)
• Ideology critique has been shadowed by claims to absolute truth since its inception (similarity 0.79)
• Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone (similarity 0.79)
• Theories must be tested by their political function, not retracted (similarity 0.79)
• Fields advance through exterior ruptures, not smooth internal accumulation. (similarity 0.79)