Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. I'm your host Ann Comrade

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

It was originally an essay by Althouzet 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 Althouzet took Marx and

Engels' original concept and expanded it. We talk 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 Althouzet and deeper dives in the future perhaps. But I really wanted

to help listeners orient themselves to Althouzet's work just because if for no other reason

we mention him all the time. Like 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. So it's really interesting, wide ranging and we hope that

everybody listening enjoys it. And as usual if you like what we do here, you can go to Revolutionary

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So without further ado let's get into this conversation with Melody on Althouzet and

his philosophy surrounding ideology and ideological state apparatuses. Enjoy.

Hi there, thanks for having me on. It's an honor to be invited to talk with you. I'm Melody.

I use she her pronouns. I'm a Marxist Lennonist and I create educational YouTube videos for

Revolutionary Leftists on my channel which is called World to Win. I talk about history,

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