On Marxism
Marxism constitutes one of the main currents of contemporary thought. By now, there is no counting the works that set out to expound, combat, or even ‘supersede’ it. It is already no easy task to find the path that cuts …
On the Materialist Dialectic On the Unevenness of Origins
‘On the Materialist Dialectic’ first appeared in La Pensée, August 1963. Remarks on the Terminology Adopted This article proposes the term Theory (with a capital T to designate Marxist ‘philosophy’ (dialectical materialism) – and reserves the term philosophy for ideological …
Marxism as a Finite Theory (1978)
Introduction by Rossana Rossanda (1978) In November 1977, at the Venice conference on Power and Opposition in Post-Revolutionary Societies, Louis Althusser asserted that there is no theory of the state in Marx. The following March, Il Manifesto proposed to Althusser …
A Letter from Louis Althusser on Gramsci’s Thought
A Letter on Gramsci’s Thought Rinascita, 15 March 1968 Translated from Italian by Warren Montag On December 1, 1967, Comrade Rino Dal Sasso published a response to a chapter from Louis Althusser’s Reading Capital that appeared in the journal Trimestre …