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To reduce the appearances of a society to its substantial relations, Marx developed a method for the critique of ideologies. His method’s starting point was his recognition that the substance of society’s network of connections is in its relations. Accordingly, when an ideological consciousness attributes the cause of a social effect to the properties of a matter, the task is to find the relations that underlie this property.
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Garai, L. (2017). The Paradoxes of the Bolshevik-Type Psycho-social Structure in Economics. In: Reconsidering Identity Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52561-1_10
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