Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies. Other words are the site of an ambiguity: the stake in a decisive but undecided… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun. — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating! So what! We are interested in the mechanism that ensures that it really is a… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory. — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence. — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
“Everything that happens in philosophy has, in the last instance, not only political consequences in theory, but also political consequences in politics: in the… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
“There exists [a] word in German, Geschichte, which designates not accomplished history, but history in the present, doubtless determined in large part, yet only… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image