
ZIZ008 The Euthanasia of Tolerant Reason (01.05.2006)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Paradox of Marx's Ideology
In order to criticize religion, you must first discover the religious dimension of everyday social life. For Marx, when he defines ideology as false appearance, Zevisn doesn't know it, but nonetheless they are doing it. The paradox then is that things may appear to you in a certain way and things really are like that,. But you are still in ideology because you don't know how things really appear to you.
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