The Ideological Impregnation of Thought

Tags: Other Schools of Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory

08/11/2010 Ludwig von Mises

To conceal the fact that Marx invented his concept of ideology expressly to discredit the economists, he elevated it to the dignity of a general epistemological law, valid for all ages and for all branches of knowledge, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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