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

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies. Other words are the site of an ambiguity: the stake in a decisive but undecided battle

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

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

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.

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