The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form … - Louis Althusser

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What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

Louis Althusser

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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Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

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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 ideology by ideology: ideology never says, 'I am ideological. '

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

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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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