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621 B
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Repressive state apparatus: the police, the politics, the government itself, the army, courts, etc., which intervene directly on behalf of the ruling class
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and ideological state apparatuses: media, education, religion, family, etc., which assert, disseminate, and affirm ruling class ideology → reinforce dominant class control & promote ways of being, knowing, and doing that are in line with dominant class interests & certain ways of viewing/evaluating/interpreting things, events, class relations.
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Althusser
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To achieve liberation we have to build a set of relations and mechanisms which counter state apparatuses. |