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“Ideology is crucial for social transformation in a democracy.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Politics and Society

An ideology is a coherent set of ideas that explains the social order, judges it and prescribes action. Karl Marx (The German Ideology, 1846) saw ideology as ruling-class ideas that justify the status quo. Karl Mannheim (Ideology and Utopia, 1929) separated ideology, which preserves the existing order, from utopia, which pushes for change. In a…

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