For Marx by Louis Althusser
  • 1. Which term describes the processes through which ideology shapes individuals?
A) Interpellation
B) Reification
C) Alienation
D) Class struggle
  • 2. What does Althusser argue about the function of ideology?
A) It serves to reproduce the conditions of production
B) It is merely a reflection of material reality
C) It leads to class consciousness
D) It is inherently false
  • 3. Althusser believes that Marx's work can be understood as a...
A) Support for individual agency
B) Rejection of historical materialism
C) Continuation of classical liberal thought
D) Break from humanism
  • 4. Which text highlights the distinction between 'scientific' and 'philosophical' socialism?
A) The Communist Manifesto
B) For Marx
C) The German Ideology
D) Capital
  • 5. What does Althusser identify as a significant break in Marx's thought?
A) From capitalism to communism
B) From idealism to a focus on production
C) From communalism to socialism
D) From feudalism to capitalism
  • 6. In Althusserian theory, 'the ISAs' refers to...
A) International State Agreements
B) Institutional State Authorities
C) Ideological State Apparatuses
D) Industrial Social Associations
  • 7. Where does Althusser believe the revolutionary potential lies?
A) In the unity of the proletariat
B) In the contradictions of capitalism
C) In the purity of Marxist doctrine
D) In idealist philosophy
  • 8. Althusser's view on Marx's contributions emphasizes...
A) The supremacy of individual action
B) The importance of biography in Marx's work
C) A focus on moral philosophies
D) A return to structuralism in analysis
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