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3. H. J. Eysenck and G. D. Wilson, The Psychological Basis of Ideology (Lancaster: MTP Press, 1978) p. 303.
4. R. Geuss, The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), p. 5.
5. M. Rodinson, ‘Mouvements Socio-Politiques’, Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, 33 (1962), 97–113, p. 99. The personal sense of justification that ideology imparts is enhanced by the self-referential nature of ideological discourse, which makes the arguments of its proponents irresistible. In