The present essay reconsiders aspects of Karl Marx's ”critique of ideology” in relation to his ideal of communist freedom. Through a critical examination of the German Ideology as well as later theory of commodity fetishism, the author shows how a teleology of communist freedom was in vital ways constitutive of Marx's materialist theory of history and ideology. If the whole historical-materialist theorization of ideology had been inadequately formulated in the first place, the status of the ”critique of ideology” was thereby put in jeopardy. It was a failure to scrutinize his own ”ideology of freedom” which largely accounts for the deficiencies in Marx's theory and critique of ideology.