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• However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their…
• Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.
• Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their…
• Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.
• If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights…
• Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place…
• To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.
• The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether…
• What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the…
• Relations of production are first reproduced by the materiality of the processes of production and circulation. But it should not be forgotten…
• The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production
• Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst…

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