Karl Marx, an important ideologist of scientific socialism
The subject who created an ideology is known as an ideologue : a system of ideas or theories. The term is also used to refer to someone who professes or defends a particular ideology .
Overview
An ideologue is usually someone who theorizes about a social, economic or other problem . The set of ideas , which are compatible and articulated with each other, is called ideology or doctrine.
Needless to say, we all have ideas every day, and we can develop our own theories improvised in the context of informal conversation. However, to be considered an ideologue, specific training is necessary, as well as well-defined research work . This is a role with the potential to make a difference on a social, political or economic level.
Their work begins with a concern caused by a problem, understood as an issue of relevance in its time that requires someone's intervention to be resolved. Many times the problem is not evident to the entire society, but only to the most visionary, those who are capable of anticipating crises by proposing timely changes.
Karl Marx
The German Karl Marx , for example, is one of the ideologues of scientific socialism . His writings gave rise to this socialist doctrine that is usually associated with communism or more specifically modern communism .
Marx was responsible for critically analyzing the economic and political situation of capitalism within the framework of the so-called Industrial Revolution. His studies were not limited to description, but included a proposal for action to leave behind the capitalist regime and adopt socialism. That is why it can be said that Marx is also the ideologue of Marxism , as the explanatory model that he proposed is called and which revolves around notions such as class struggle and the appropriation of surplus value.
In the 20th century
In 1998, the French philosopher and writer Jean-Pierre Faye baptized the 20th century as the century of ideologies . Although throughout the previous hundred years the term ideology referred to intellectual debate , starting in 1900 it became a channel for important movements, both in thought and in the social sphere.
The ideologists of the 20th century focused on a series of points of view that did not seem to give much room to religion , but rather to social and political issues, such as feminism, environmentalism, racial equality and nationalism . In this regard, the French intellectual André Malraux , born in 1901 and died in 1976, assured shortly before his death that the 21st century would have religion in the foreground.
Ideology is a channel for great changes
Another meaning
In colloquial language , the promoter or creator of a project or initiative is mentioned as an ideologue. Journalists can indicate that a certain economist is the ideologue of the fiscal policies applied by a president, to cite one possibility. A football coach, on the other hand, can be the ideologue of a way of playing based on his tactical and strategic plans.
We must understand that in this case the role of the ideologue is supported by a series of well-organized knowledge , acquired over time and nourished through practice. For these reasons, we should not understand this meaning as a poor or inferior form of ideologue, but perhaps with a much more defined focus , less broad than that of those intellectuals who prophesy the social, economic and political future of the entire world. As long as they can solidly support their ideas, the use of the term is correct.