> In fact, the Democratic Party, like ideology, thrives in the
> very "reservations and criticisms" that subjects maintain, for the
> consciousness of maintaining "reservations and criticisms" allows
> subjects to feel that they are not naive dupes
Nope. Ideology isn't a subjective illusion, which will disappear once the Objective Conditions are ripe. Ideology is the appearance of the totality -- its mundane, daily reality (workers working, capitalists accumulating, rentiers speculating). What people *think* about the totality, by contrast, falls into the domain of culture -- and that's why theory is necessary, to figure out which forms of cultural praxis are reactionary and which are progressive. This isn't to say culture can replace political organizing, but just to point out that any progressive politics has to have a progressive cultural praxis.
-- DRR