“There exists [a] word in German, Geschichte, which designates not accomplished history, but history in the present, doubtless determined in large part, yet only in part, by the already accomplished past; for a history which is present, which is living,… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain of History and of our lives, in the eternal 'current situation.' He goes on talking,… — 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
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