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Althusser

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Louis Althusser (1918-1990) was an Algerian-French Structuralist Marxist philosopher.

Althusser's approach to the subject came from attempts to rethink Marxism, using structuralism in opposition to mechanistic thought in a more humanist way, seeking to put conscious activity at the heart of Marxism in combination with the 'alienation' of people from their full altruistic potential.

Interpellation: We are 'hailed' into subject positions.
Ideological State Apparatus: That makes us willing subjects.

Althusser

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