Louis Althusser's work is in the structuralist tradition and with one feature being the rejection of marx's hegelian essentialism which is a reduction of things to single essence or principle. He rejected two kinds of this essentialism one being economism ( the theory that regards economics as the main factor in society) and humanism ( a system that rejects religious believes and focuses on humans and their values). So basically Althusser's Marxism is anti-economist and anti-humanist which creates the ideology that regards a human individual is generally regarded as a subject with the property of being a self-conscience 'responsible' agent whose actions can be explained by their thoughts and beliefs.
"I shall therefore say that, where only a single subject (such and such individual) is concerned, the existence of the ideas of his belief is material in that his ideas are his material actions inserted into his material practices governed by material rituals which are themselves defined by the material ideological apparatus from which we derive the ideas of that subject...Ideas have disappeared as such (insofar as they are endowed with an ideal or spiritual existence), to the precise extent that it has emerged that their existence is inscribed in the actions of practices governed by rituals defined in the last instance by an ideological apparatus. It therefore appears that the subject acts insofar as he is acted by the following system (set out in the order of its real determination): ideology existing in a material ideological apparatus, describing material practices governed by a material ritual, which practices exist in the material actions of a subject acting in all consciousness according to his belief."
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