[George W. Bush]

The intellectual history of this type of argument is Marxism.

I was under the impression that Marxism is now considered a philosophy. It's claims as a science or rational economic model are thoroughly refuted.

Increasingly, it will be viewed as a historical curiosity, much the way we see the race theories or the one-leader type of fascism (Hitler, Mussolini) as ignorant but tragic relics of the past.

[JohnGalt]

I am sure some might be categorizing Marxism as such, but I would check their agenda first. Conservatives consider Marxism to be the revolutionary/radical sector of liberalism which grew out of Robespierre, and the social Democrats/socialists to be the non-radical Marxists.

Thus conservatives are not fooled by Trotskyites or Leninist or socialists who are simply proposing a slower pace in destroying traditional Western institutions, regardless of any political stripe.

As far as linguistics goes, because morals and truth are not fixed, 'ideology', a Marxist construct, becomes the only means of discerning truth or lie:"if you are not for ideological point A, then you are objectively for point b."