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the ideas of the ruling class

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of men…

—p.45 The Philosophy of Marx Ideology or Fetishism: Power and Subjection (42) by Karl Marx
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praxis

Since the Greeks (who made it the privilege of ‘citizens’, i.e. of the masters), praxis had been that ‘free’ action in which man realizes and transforms only himself, seeking to attain his own perfection.

—p.40 Changing the World: From Praxis to Production (13) by Étienne Balibar
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imbroglio

They must explain this paradox, which also leads them to point up the imbroglio that arises from it

—p.23 Changing the World: From Praxis to Production (13) by Étienne Balibar
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which will soon prove lethal

[...] (1) that the conditions of existence of the proletarians (what we would today term social exclusion) are in contradiction with all the principles of that society; (2) that they themselves live by other values than those of private property, profit, patriotism and bourgeois individualism; and …

—p.21 Changing the World: From Praxis to Production (13) by Étienne Balibar