Stalin was also the first Russian ruler to introduce sports as an ideological tool, a kind of opium of the masses.
Mussolini's contribution of an article on fascism indicates the extent to which the work might be regarded as an ideological tool, but, in fact, most of its contents are international and objective in approach.
Photomontage achieved its height as an ideological tool in the 1930s but remained in practice even in the late Soviet period, said Olga L. Sviblova, the director of the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow and an authority on Soviet photomontage.
Like the Young Turks, he wanted passionately to throw off the shackles of the dominant cinéma de papa of the time, but Godard, Rivette and the rest also wanted to establish film's autonomy in France against its use as an ideological tool in the cold war.
Thundafund's Patrick Schofield also believes that the crowdfunding model can be an ideological tool that can bring about change.
From its very inception, the Islamic regime used Islam as a political and ideological tool.
But if Kavanaugh is just an ideological tool, why were so many centrist and liberal figures in the legal world voicing their support when he was nominated?
Wrapped up in the art-making that he's encouraging is the idea that there's an inherent value to radical self-expression, as is his understanding of media as an ideological tool.
"Otherwise, the conventions may be distorted and the committees risk losing authority and being reduced to tools of ideological pressure rather than a necessary stimulus towards the desired progress in promoting respect for human rights," said Lombardi.
This view of the conduct book, and of Thoughts in particular, questions the earlier interpretation of the genre as a mere tool of ideological indoctrination, an interpretation that grew out of criticism influenced by theorists such as Michel Foucault.
