Abstract
In her article “The ‘Althusser-Mao’ Problematic and the Reconstruction of Historical Materialism: Maoism, China and Althusser on Ideology,” Fang Yan analyses the “Althusser-Mao” problematic which was first brought up by Liu Kang, outlining how Mao’s ideas contributed to the formation of Althusser’s theory of ideology. The paper is divided into three parts: first, how Mao influenced Althusser’s propositions of the primacy of relations of production and reciprocal action of the superstructure; secondly, how Mao influenced Althusser’s notions of ideological practice, Ideological State Apparatuses and ideological class struggle; and finally, how Althusser drew on Mao in the formation of the concept of “mass ideological revolution.” Yan argues that the “Althusser-Mao” problematic elevates ideology to such an extent that ideology or ideological struggle becomes synonymous with the search for “alternative modernity.
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Yan, Fang.
"The “Althusser-Mao” Problematic and the Reconstruction of Historical Materialism: Maoism, China and Althusser on Ideology."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
20.3
(2018):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3258>
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