There's always a nice tune [on radio] - helps you get the dishes done. I like to get the news from time to time - not too often. I don't feel deprived.
Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.
Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.
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. '
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.
To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.
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.
Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.
I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.