However, it offends the “conception of right,” if “a code of regulation is the blunt, unmitigated, unadulterated expression of the domination of a category” (Engels, letter to C. Schmidt, October 27, 1890). And as a result of ideology such as regulation takes a proper and normative kind, the powerful are in its grips too, persuaded by an account of the inevitable and simply order from which they revenue. Moreover, ideology is not any mere fiction; it is produced by actual social conditions and reflects them. Ideology thus should achieve constituting a consensus about capitalism, and it must do so by giving expression to capitalism’s recognizable options. Equality earlier than the legislation, for example, is each elicited by, and reflects, the reality of capitalist financial relations, even if it is an equality that is formal and incomplete.
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