Putting Ideas into the Mind—Marx's Regular Revelations on the Process of Ideological and Political Education
In criticizing the theoretical limitations of Feuerbach's critique of religion,Marx points out that the key to the problem is to ask and answer how people can"put religious illusions into their minds",a question that opens the way to a materialist worldview while at the same time posing the de-mand for a philosophical revolution that establishes a"genuinely critical worldview"and a"truly criti-cal worldview".It is on the basis of this central question that Marx advances the philosophical revolu-tion of historical materialism and the narrative of ideological and political education through the ideo-logical critique from the individual to the general,and from the copy to the original.He holds that con-cepts originate from life,ideological concepts originate from the contradictions of life and class strug-gle,and putting concepts into the mind is a common necessity of the state for domination and of the in-dividual's commitment to beliefs.However,whether an ideological concept can really enter the mind and become the dominant spiritual force depends fundamentally on whether the concept is aware of the dominant material force,and strategically on whether the ideological and political education that is also aware of this material force is better or worse.In this sense,"putting ideas into the mind"is the very thing of the process of ideological and political education,and Marx's regular revelation of the essence ofthis process lays down the core viewpoints and theoretical principles of Marxist ideological and polit-ical pedagogy.
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