Ideology only corresponds to a corruption of reality through signs; simulation corresponds to a short circuit of reality and to its duplication through signs. It is always the goal of the ideological analysis to restore the objective process, it is always a false problem to wish to restore the truth beneath the simulacrum.This is why in the end power is so much in tune with ideological discourses and discourses in ideology, that is they are discourses of truth---always good for the mortal blows of simulation, even and especially if they are revolutionary.