ALTHUSSER’S PHILOSOPHY:HOW POSTMODERNS PARASITIZE MARXISM-LENINISM-MAOISM

Louis Althusser was a French philosopher with a structuralist and “Marxist” orientation. The critique of his positions is of some political importance because he is an author considered by many to be close to Maoism.

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INDEX

1. Introduction
2. The “ symptomatic reading ”: hermeneutics and psychoanalysis
3. The epistemological rupture: Althusser vs. materialistic dialectics
4. Anti-humanism and the “subjectless process”: Althusser vs. historical materialism
5. The Ideological Apparatuses of the State: Gramsci upside down…
6. The Althusserians: parasites of Marxism, Leninism and Maoism
7. A special case of “ Althusserism”: the revisionist positions of Bob Avakian of the PCR(USA). About the relationship between postmodernism and the “New Synthesis”