Not only did they believe that ideology was something that could be avoided, but that it was something that should be avoided. German Ideology addresses ideology and how it relates to the quest for communism. It claims that: “in every ideology men and their circumstances appear upside down as if in a dark room”. The only function of ideology, according to Marx and Engels, is the distortion of reality, implemented by the dominant bourgeoisie over the proletariat. The common ideology of the elite class in a capitalist society is imposed on the working class until they accept it, thus inventing a false consciousness among them. With control of the ideology of the proletariat, the bourgeoisie could shape that ideology to fit whatever program it wished, which for Marx and Engels meant that workers would have an ideology of overt oppression and exploitation. Ideology, therefore, is something that the proletariat needed to shed in order to free itself from the shackles forged by capitalism. Almost all people when faced with communism will consider it an ideology, which Marx and Engels deny, arguing that the ideas they propagated were actually scientific in scientific terms.