“To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.”

—  Bernard Crick

Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 2, A Defence Of Politics Against Ideology, p. 38.

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