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

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Louis Althusser

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

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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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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 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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