Louis Althusser puts it this way: because "class instinct is subjective and spontaneous," the class instinct of the middle classes and "thus of intellectuals" must undergo a painful and "revolutionary" transformation in order to become oppositional—that is, in order to become aligned with the methodology of the oppressed.


Methodology of the Oppressed (2000), p. 181


Louis Althusser puts it this way: because class instinct is subjective and spontaneous, the class instinct of the middle classes and thus of...

Louis Althusser puts it this way: because class instinct is subjective and spontaneous, the class instinct of the middle classes and thus of...

Louis Althusser puts it this way: because class instinct is subjective and spontaneous, the class instinct of the middle classes and thus of...

Louis Althusser puts it this way: because class instinct is subjective and spontaneous, the class instinct of the middle classes and thus of...