One Must Speak For A Struggle For

The People Themselves Are Not A Homogeneous Cultural Collectivity But Present Numerous And Variously Combined Cultural Stratifications Which, In Their Pure Form, Cannot Always Be Identified Within Specific Historical Popular Collectivities.

The Starting-point Of Critical Elaboration Is The Consciousness Of What One Really Is, And Is 'knowing Thyself'as A Product Of The Historical Processes To Date, Which Has Deposited In You An Infinity Of Traces, Without Leaving An Inventory.

Economy And Ideology. The Claim (presented As An Essential Postulate Of Historical Materialism) That Every Fluctuation Of Politics And Ideology Can Be Presented And Expounded As An Immediate Expression Of The Structure, Must Be Contested In Theory As Primitive Infantilism, And Combated In Practice With The Authentic Testimony Of Marx, The Author Of Concrete Political And Historical Works.

The Philosophy Of Praxis Does Not Aim At The Peaceful Resolution Of Existing Contradictions In History And Society, But Is The Very Theory Of These Contradictions. It Is Not The Instrument Of Government Of The Dominant Groups In Order To Gain The Consent And Exercise Hegemony Over The Subaltern Classes. It Is The Expression Of Subaltern Classes Who Want To Educate Themselves In The Art Of Government And Who Have An Interest In Knowing All Truths, Even The Unpleasant Ones, And In Avoiding The Impossible Deceptions Of The Upper Class, And Even More Their Own.

From The Moment When A Subordinate Class Becomes Really Independent And Dominant, Calling Into Being A New Type Of State, The Need Arises Concretely, Of Building A New Intellectual And Moral Order, I.e. A New Type Of Society, And Hence The Need To Elaborate The Most Universal Concepts, The Most Refined And Decisive Ideological Weapons.