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True or false? Althusser states that all of the following institutions serve as ISAs: religious, educational, family, legal, political, trade-union, communications, and cultural.

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In a book Rethinking Contexts, Rereading Texts: Contributions from the Social Sciences to Biblical Interpretation , written by Mark Daniel Carroll R.

The ideological interpretation specifically applies to the capitalist mode of production.

According to the Marxist-Leninist theory, Althusser considers the modern democracy as a tool of suppression containing two bodies:

  • the repressive state apparatus or RSAs (government, military, police and the courts), that undoubtedly function through violence,
  • and the ideological state apparatuses or ISAs (spiritual, academic, family, constitutional, political, labor union, communication systems, cultural institutions), which fuelled it.
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