Ideologies are false inflections of real relations, not falsehoods about them

Evidence

To understand the role of ideology, we must also be able to account for the mechanisms which consistently sustain, in reality, a set of representations which are not so much false to, as a false inflection of, the “real relations” on which, in fact, they depend. (Let us remember that, since the market does exist and people buy and sell things, market ideologies are materialized in market practices.) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 890

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Both settler and liberation epistemologies falsely treat identity as fixed. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 44