The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. … - Louis Althusser

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I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings.

Louis Althusser

The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history or its object, grasp its own origins within itself or constitute itself as a closed world, exhaustively defined by internal rules. Materialism refers every science and every activity to the reality they depend on, even if this dependence is masked by a great many abstract mediations: mathematics as well as logic, aesthetics as well as ethics and politics.

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

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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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