Althusser, Louis

"The aesthetic is never separate from the political and ideological."

"To change the world, we must first understand the ideological mechanisms that sustain it."

"The distinction between manual and intellectual labor is itself an ideological effect."

"Authentic revolutionary practice emerges from the contradictions of the existing order."

"Literature expresses both the ideology of its author and the structural contradictions of society."

"The state apparatus functions through both violence and ideology, inseparably."

"To be politically effective, theory must engage with the specificity of local struggles."

"The ideological apparatus is not monolithic but contains multiple and contradictory forces."

"Cultural resistance is possible only when it engages with the material conditions of its existence."

"The future is not predetermined; it emerges from present ideological and material struggles."