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In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. Louis Althusser, Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists: And Other Essays tags: althusser, ideology, philosophy, science, war 16 likes like Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory. Louis Althusser, Essays in Self-Criticism

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10 likes like 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, Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987 7 likes like 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, Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987 6 likes like The proof of the pudding is in the eating! So what! We are interested in the mechanism that ensures that it really is a pudding we are eating and not a poached baby elephant, though we think we are eating our daily pudding! Louis Althusser 4 likes like 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, Essays in Self-Criticism 4 likes like 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, Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987 3 likes like There exists [a] word in German, Geschichte, which designates not accomplished history, but history in the present, doubtless determined in large part, yet only in part, by the already accomplished past; for a history which is present, which is living, is also open to a future that is uncertain, unforeseeable, not yet accomplished, and therefore aleatory. Living history obeys only a constant (not a law): the constant of class struggle. Marx did not use the term 'constant', which I have taken from Levi-Strauss, but an expression of genius: 'tendential law', capable of inflecting (but not contradicting) the primary tendential law, which means that a tendency does not possess the form or figure of linear law, but that it can bifurcate under the impact of an encounter with another tendency, and so on ad infinitum. At each intersection the tendency can take a path that is unforeseeable because it is aleatory. Louis Althusser, Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987 3 likes like 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, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays 3 likes like ...Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution.

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Louis Althusser, Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-1987 2 likes like

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