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Louis Althusser Quotes

Louis Althusser quotes

Algerian Philosopher October 16, 1918 – October 23, 1990

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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 nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one. 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. Louis Althusser
Everything that happens in philosophy has, in the last instance, not only political consequences in theory, but also political consequences in politics: in the political class struggle. Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser quote: "Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the..."
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory. Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser quote: "In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war,..."
In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. Louis Althusser
Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world. Louis Althusser
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. Louis Althusser
...Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution. Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser quote: "Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is..."
Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious. Louis Althusser
A man of nothing who has started out from nothing starting out from an unassignable place: these are, for Machiavelli, the conditions for regeneration. Louis Althusser

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