Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

I'm your host and comrade Bred O'Shea.

And today we have on Melody to talk about ideology and ideological state apparatuses.

It was originally an essay by Al Thuseze, but it eventually became the appendix

to a much bigger work called On the Reproduction of Capitalism. And in this episode, we talk

about ideology, we talk about psychoanalysis, we talk about how Althusay took Marx and Engel's

original concept and expanded it, we talked about RSAs and ISAs and interpolation and a

bunch of different stuff. I really wanted this episode to sort of be a 101 introduction to the main

ideas of Al Thusei and, you know, deeper dives in the future perhaps, but I really wanted to

help listeners orient themselves to Althusay's work just because if for

no other reason, we mention him all the time.

We mention him in our psychoanalysis episode.

We have a philosophy episode coming up where we talk about him.

Just mention him a lot and I realize we've never done any real work on him.

So this will be a really good, hopefully 101 introduction with a lot of fascinating detours

in our conversation about quantum mechanics, free will, science and math, etc.

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