Mass adhesion is the critical test of an ideology’s historical rationality

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• The concept of ideology was born torn between historical relativism and universal truth. (similarity 0.85)
• Cultural influence detached from popular masses lacks real political weight (similarity 0.83)
• Totalitarian ideology becomes as untouchable as arithmetic to members. (similarity 0.83)
• Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.82)
• Failing to integrate masses into the state produces a stunted, dependent ruling class (similarity 0.82)
• Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology can be reconceived as a terrain of struggle, drawing on Gramsci and Laclau. (similarity 0.82)
• The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the true source of the tradition. (similarity 0.81)
• Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone (similarity 0.81)
• A philosophy’s historical impact is measured by its sediment in common sense. (similarity 0.81)
• Nietzsche reduced all ideology to a power struggle between illusions (similarity 0.81)
• Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.80)
• Political movements must engage the religious terrain where religion is the dominant ideological domain. (similarity 0.80)
• Black masses organized openly while intelligentsia pursued supplication (similarity 0.80)
• Revolutionary regimes attract blind faith, not grounded trust (similarity 0.80)