The whole of Althusser's theory is made up of the following elements:
1. common sense banalities expressed with the help of unnecessarily complicated neologisms;
2. traditional Marxist concepts that are vague and ambiguous in Marx himself (or in Engels) and which remain, after Althusser's explanation, exactly as vague and ambiguous as they were before;
3. some striking historical inexactitudes.
Althusser couldn't think, he couldn't write. There's no discernible talent.
And what about that time he mistook his wife for a capitalism?
>>9627682
Awful. But I laughed.
>>9627682
ideological state apparatus made him do it