The transition from ideology as a false consciousness to ideology as a true insight into the future of historical development, from the mind full of self-deception to the mind permeated with truth, was quite puzzling. How is it possible, one would ask, that the same person can be, on the one hand, suspicious of all ideas as arising from particular conditions and having no truthful content of their own, and on the other, be dedicated body and soul to a set of ideas that he finds mandatory and compelling? The answer is already included in the question. Ideology is a mental structure that allows
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