Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays Quotes

“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.”
― Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

“it is the masses who make history.”
― Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

“A single word sums up the master function of philosophical practice: ‘to draw a dividing line’ between the true ideas and false ideas. Lenin’s words.”
― Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

“as Marx said, to ‘interpret the world’. It becomes a weapon with which ‘to change it’: revolution.”
― Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

“philosophy is fundamentally political.”
― Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays