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INDIVIDUALISM AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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«.cial«.-Pla.o and Hitler, for instance-planned also for the
producaon of foturr «,ciaUs,s. the breeding and education of future
members of society.
During the 2300 years s.nce Plato, very little opposition has been
registered to his ideas. Not even by Kant. The psychological bias in favor
of socialism must be taken into consideration in discussing Marxian
ideas. This is not hmited to those who call themselves Marxian.
Marxians deny that there is such a thing as the search for knowledge
for the uke of knowledge alone. But they are not consistent in this
case either, for they say one of the purposes of the sociaUst state is to
ehininate such a search for knowledge. It is an insult, they say for persons
to study things that arc useless.
Now I want to discuss the meaning of the ideological distortion of
truths. C:iass consciousness is not developed in the beginning, but it must
mcvitably come. Marx developed his doctrine of ideology because he
realized he couldn't answer the criticisms raised against sociaHsm. His
answer was. "What you say is not true. It is only ideology. What a man
Chmks. so long as we do not have a classless society, is necessarily a class
ideology—that is. it is based on a false consciousness." Without any
further explanation. Marx assumed that such an ideology was useful to
the class and to the members of the class that developed it. Such ideas
had for iheir goal the pursuit of the aims of their class.
Marx and Engels appeared and developed the class ideas of the
proletariat. Therefore, from this time on the doctrine of the bourgeoisie
is absolutely useless. Perhaps one may say that the bourgeoisie needed
this explanation to salve a bad conscience. But why should they
have a bad conscience if their existence is necessary? And it is necessary,
according to Marxian doctrine, for without the bourgeoisie, capitalism
cannot develop. And until capitalism is "mature," there cannot be
any socialism.
According to Marx, bourgeois economics, sometimes called
**apologetics for bourgeois production," aided them, the bourgeoisie. The
Marxians could have said that the thought the bourgeoisie gave to this
bad bourgeois theory justified, in their eyes, as well as in the eyes of the
exploited, the capit.iiist mode of production, thus making it possible for
the system to exist. But this would have been a very un-Marxist
explanation. First of all, according to Marxian doctrine, no justification is
needed for the bourgeois system of production; the bourgeoisie exploit
because it is their business to exploit, just as it is the business of the