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Jordan Humphreys

Structure, ideology and agency: A critique of Louis Althusser

Socialism 2016

Over-determination, Ideological State Apparatuses, history as a process without a subject. These are just some of the Althusserian concepts that have influenced many Marxists since the 1970s. But do these ideas really represent a useful addition to Marxist theory? Can we reconcile them with Althusser's thoroughly Stalinist political approach?