"A political consciousness could be said to arise through the recognition that views held to be a priori truths by important voices in society may in fact be relative and open to investigation. These views may be declaimed with confidence, they may seem to belong to the fabric of existence as much as the trees and the sky, yet they are - a political perspective insists - made up by particular beings with particular practical and psychological interests to defend.
If this relativity is hard to bear in mind, it is because dominant beliefs typically take pains to suggest that they are no more alterable by human hands than the orbit of the sun. They claim to be merely stating the obvious. They are, to use Karl Marx's helpful word, ideological, an ideological statement being defined as one that is engaged in subtly pushing a partial line while pretending to be speaking neutrally."
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