It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production

If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world.

To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain of History and of our lives, in the eternal 'current situation.' He goes on talking, calmly or passionately. He goes on talking about something simple: his revolutionary practice, the practice of class struggle, about what makes it possible to act on history...not to demonstrate that revolutions are inevitable, but to make them in our unique present.