Ideology and ideological surplus value: Karl Marx and Ludovico in dialogue

Abstract

The present article seeks to revisit a fundamental concept for the analysis of the ideas in the capitalist system: ideology. To do so, this concept is revisited in a classic author on this subject: Karl Marx. Based on the investigation of excerpts of his book “German Ideology”, the article aims to recover what the German thinker understands by ideology. After, an analysis of the book “The ideological  surplus value” written by the Venezuelan philosopher Ludovico Silva. Silva takes up the concept of ideology as it appears in Marx and then tries to expand it, discovering a new category: ideological surplus value. In the end, the converging elements between Marx and Silva are highlighted and the possibilities and limits of the ideological surplus value category are pointed out.