Chris Barker holds that in contemporary times, “the notion of ideology at best implies the ‘binding and justifying ideas' of all social groups.” (Barker). This echoes the Marxist formulation that the ruling ideas of a society are the ideas of the dominant class. Here ‘binding gives us the illusion that people readily forge identities as a community . And this is what every dominant group wants the masses to believe, that the dominant ideology is the optimal way in which we are bound together as members of society.

For instance let us look at capitalism as a political ideology. As a worldview or ideology, capitalism would want its subjects to believe that individualism is what characterizes human beings more than cooperation does. On the other hand, the worldview within communist ideologies would not be competition but cooperation. So for different ideologies we have different worldviews and sharing an ideology means sharing a worldview which appears to be justified, to be the best thing possible.