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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

— Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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