Ideology is said in many ways. Which one is emancipatory?

This week, we are joined by Dr. William Clare Roberts, Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University, to discuss his recent essay “Ideology and Self-Emancipation: Voluntary Servitude, False Consciousness, and the Career of Critical Theory.”  This is the second part in our “Ideology” series. You can listen to the first part (Episode 142) here.

In this episode, we discuss the following thinkers/texts/ideas/etc.:

• Moka Express by Bialetti
• Data Workers Inquiry Group
• McGill University’s Divest for Palestine Collective encampment
• Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Elements of Ideology (1801-15)
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology (1845-6)
• Sarah Johnson, “Farewell to The German Ideology“ (2022)
• “Left Hegelians”
• Frankfurt School and critical theory
• Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?” (1784)
• Karl Marx, “Inaugural Address of the International Working Men’s Association” (1864)
• W.E.B. du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. 
• Frantz Fanon
• Louis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
• Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach (1888)
• Göran Therborn, The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology (1999)
• György Lukács, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (1923)
• György Lukács, Tactics and Ethics: Political Writings, 1919-29
• Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on Language (1969)
• G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
• majoritarian democracy
• collective self-determination
• Origin and meaning of the term “scab”
• Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1 (1867)
• Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958)
• Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
• Jacques Lacan
• Louis Althusser, For Marx (1965)
• Slavoj Žižek, Mapping Ideology (1994)
• Marx on ideology and false consciousness