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Louis Althusser: Marxist Theory and Philosophy

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Marxism and the Class Struggle - Volume 1 of Capital

He had these very public debates within the French Communist Party. He ended up teaching and I believe being the department chair of philosophy at Nicole Normaal Superior which is kind of like the most prestigious University in France. His mission here was to produce you know new ways of understanding Marx, Lenin, Mao they read all the volumes of Capital They read theories of surplus value the Young Marx he led a really important reading group that ended up publishing some pretty incredible arguments about capitalism.

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