It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Karl Marx (Marx Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 269.)

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  • This is a better translation, basically it means that the ruling class produces the ideology that permeates public discourse.

    “The ideas of the ruling class are, in every epoch, the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the dominant material force in society is at the same time its dominant intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal also has at its disposal the means of intellectual production …”