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- Louis Althusser - Birmendreïs, Algeria
- Interpellation - Interpellation is a concept first coined by Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser to describe the process by which ideology addresses the (abstract) pre-ideological individual thus effectively producing him as subject proper. Henceforth, Althusser goes against the classical definition of the subject as cause and substance: in other words, the situation always precedes the (individual or collective) subject, which ...
- Marxist humanism - ... focuses on Marx's earlier writings, especially the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 in which Marx espouses his theory of alienation, as opposed to his later works, which are considered to be concerned more with his structural conception of capitalist society. It was opposed by Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser's "antihumanism", who qualified it as a revisionist movement.
- Structural Marxism - Structural Marxism was an approach to Marxist philosophy based on structuralism, primarily associated with the work of the French philosopher Louis Althusser and his students. It was influential in France during the late 1960s and 1970s, and also came to influence philosophers, political theorists and sociologists outside of France during the 1970s.
- Nicos Poulantzas - Nicos Poulantzas (Îίκος Πουλαντζάς in Greek) (1936-1979) was a Greco-French Marxist political sociologist. In the 1970s, Poulantzas was known, along with Louis Althusser, as a leading Structural Marxist and while at first a Leninist, he eventually became a proponent of eurocommunism.