Bourgeois ideology, strongly influences social consciousness by reframing complex social problems—such as violence against women, gender, racism, and identity—through the narrow lens of individual rights. This ideological framework obscures the social and class roots of oppression and therefore must be confronted theoretically and politically. The task is to critically examine the social and economic conditions that give rise to these ideas, their anti-scientific and irrational character, their institutional enforcement, their strategic role for the capitalist system, and the necessity of their systematic, evidence-based opposition.
The spread of these ideologies is linked to changes within the working class itself, particularly the growth of new strata of wage labor that rely increasingly on intellectual and creative capacities. These groups often lack collective experience, class consciousness, and organizational skills. Capitalist forces seek to keep them fragmented and individualized, preventing their transformation from a “class in itself” into a “class for itself.” Within this context, individuals are increasingly defined as bearers of marketable skills rather than as social beings. Alienation, consumerism, and narcissistic culture promote artificial needs and fragmented identities, encouraging a proliferation of individualized “rights” detached from collective and class interests.
Lifestyle, consumption patterns, and self-presentation become part of the commodification of the self. The obsessive pursuit of extreme self-definition—especially through fluid gender and sexual identities—is presented as liberation but instead leads to endless dissatisfaction, loss of meaning, and intensified alienation. Sexuality, detached from its biological, emotional, social, and cultural dimensions, becomes fetishized and instrumentalized, reflecting the broader emptiness produced by capitalist social relations.
Foucauldian micro-power theories and postmodern claims that gender and identity are arbitrary social constructions are the basis. Such approaches elevate particularity while rejecting universality, collectivity, and class-based subjectivity. Methodologically, they oscillate between biological determinism and sociological reductionism, both rooted in a metaphysical, anti-dialectical understanding of humanity that blocks scientific analysis of social laws and historical development.
These ideologies are not merely academic but are actively enfor
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