Quotes by Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser

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, calmly or passionately. He goes on talking about something simple: his revolutionary practice, the practice of class struggle, about what makes it possible to act on history…not to demonstrate that revolutions are inevitable, but to make them in our unique present.

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

Existence

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Real

Ideology… is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

Demand

Existence

Men

If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’

Ends

Fighting

Philosopher

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

Battle

Philosophy

War

In truth, ideology has very little to do with ‘consciousness’, even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

Consciousness

Ideology

Littles

It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

Characteristics

Facts

Self

Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies. Other words are the site of an ambiguity: the stake in a decisive but undecided battle

Class

Enemy

Struggle

One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.

Battle

Goal

Philosophy

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

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Philosophy

Struggle

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Ideology

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Knowing

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Quotes by Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser

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

Ideology… is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their 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 in theory.’

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

In truth, ideology has very little to do with ‘consciousness’, even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies. Other words are the site of an ambiguity: the stake in a decisive but undecided battle

One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.

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

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