Althusser, Louis

"We cannot simply read off ideology from economic conditions; the relationship is complex."

"The reproduction of labor power involves both material sustenance and ideological formation."

"Art can either reproduce ideology or contest it, depending on its material conditions."

"To transform society, we must transform the ideological state apparatuses."

"Freedom is not the absence of determination but freedom within concrete social relations."

"The proletariat is the revolutionary class because of its structural position, not its consciousness."

"Critique of ideology requires standing outside of it, which is itself a theoretical task."

"Mass culture is a primary vehicle for the dissemination of dominant ideology."

"The state maintains power through a combination of repressive and ideological mechanisms."

"Humanism is itself an ideology that obscures material social relations."

"Knowledge is never innocent; it is always implicated in relations of power."

"The working class does not need education about revolution; it needs revolutionary theory."

"Ideology persists because it serves the material interests of dominant classes."

"We are caught within ideology precisely when we believe we have escaped it."

"The struggle between classes is fundamentally a struggle over ideological hegemony."

"Literature expresses ideological contradictions in condensed and displaced form."

"The university reproduces bourgeois ideology while appearing to transcend class interests."

"To be a subject means to be subjected to ideological state apparatuses."

"Economic determination operates 'in the last instance,' not in every moment."

"The crisis of capitalism is first a crisis of ideology and representation."

"We must analyze the material base of ideological formations, not treat them as pure ideas."

"The petit bourgeoisie clings to ideology precisely because it lacks stable material position."

"Authentic experience is always already mediated by ideology and cannot serve as foundation."

"The law functions as an ideological apparatus that naturalizes capitalist relations."

"To understand art, we must examine its relation to the ideological superstructure."

"Class struggle is the engine of historical change, not ideas or consciousness."

"The concept of alienation obscures the structural reality of capitalist exploitation."

"Media apparatuses function as ideological state institutions in contemporary capitalism."

"The contradictions of capitalism cannot be resolved at the level of ideology."

"Resistance begins when we recognize the mechanisms through which ideology operates."