Question

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

Answer 1

Answer:

True

Explanation:

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.