Louis Althusser Quotes
Louis Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher and a teacher at the Ecole Normale Superieure for nearly thirty years. His For Marx and Reading Capital, the latter co-written with his students, proposed a structuralist reading of Marx that rejected the early Marx of the 1844 Manuscripts in favor of the mature Marx of Capital. The quotes below are attributed to Louis Althusser, organized by topic.
Louis Althusser on Politics
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Attributed to Louis Althusser:
“Ideology has no history.”
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Attributed to Louis Althusser:
“Ideology hails or interpellates concrete individuals as concrete subjects.”
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Attributed to Louis Althusser:
“There is no practice except by and in an ideology.”
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Attributed to Louis Althusser:
“Philosophy is, in the last instance, the class struggle in theory.”
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Attributed to Louis Althusser:
“The lonely hour of the last instance never comes.”
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Attributed to Louis Althusser:
“Marx's true discovery is the discovery of history as a process without a subject.”