Unmasking the Perils of Ideology – Ojel L. Rodríguez Burgos

Kenneth Minogue, who died ten years ago this summer, was an academic at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

He argued that modern liberalism had become discontented with the modern world due to the various forms of suffering afflicting both individuals and society.

In his book, Minogue asserts that ideology is still very much alive within modern liberalism.

The term “ideology,” coined by Destutt de Tracy during the French Revolution, has been a subject of scholarly debate, with varying connotations over time.

In Alien Powers, David Minogue aimed to reclaim the original negative connotation associated with the term ideology’ in Alien Powers.

He viewed ideology as a critical mode of thought that poses a threat to the tradition of politics of Western civilisation and its free way of life.

The value of Kenneth Minogue's work lies not only in identifying ideology in our contemporary times, but also in understanding that the essence of ideology is hostility towards the modern West and the disposition that created it: individualism.

This outright hostility to the modern individualist way of life is driven by a nostalgic yearning for a perfect world, a yearning that dominates modern liberals and conservatives.