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Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser (1918–1990) was a Marxist philosopher, taught philosophy for many years at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and an influential figure in the French Communist Party. His books include For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965, with Étienne Balibar and others) and Lenin and Philosophy (1969). (February 2020)

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