Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of knowing,) is the ideology from which it is born, in which it bathes, from which it detaches itself as art, and which it alludes.

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

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.

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

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