Ideology Represents The Imaginary Relationship Of Individuals

Occasionally, The Whole Class Struggle May Be Summed Up In The Struggle For One Word Against Another Word. Certain Words Struggle Amongst Themselves As Enemies. Other Words Are The Site Of An Ambiguity: The Stake In A Decisive But Undecided Battle

In Truth, Ideology Has Very Little To Do With 'consciousness', Even Supposing This Term To Have An Unambiguous Meaning. It Is Profoundly Unconscious, Even When It Presents Itself In A Reflected Form.

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.

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.

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.'