Battle Quote by Louis Althusser

“In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.” quote by Louis Althusser — Download Open image

“In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.”

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One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very…

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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 wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression.

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In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even…

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To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

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“The proof of the pudding is in the eating! So what! We are interested in the mechanism that ensures that it really is a…

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Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

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Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

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Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seems therefore to take place outside it. That is why those who are in ideology believe themselves by definition outside ideology: one of the effects of ideology is the practical denegation of the ideological character of…

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“Everything that happens in philosophy has, in the last instance, not only political consequences in theory, but also political consequences in politics: in the…

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“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, is also open to a future that is uncertain, unforeseeable, not yet accomplished, and therefore aleatory. Living history obeys only…

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The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production

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