Louis Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher and professor who was a long-time member of the French Communist Party, though he sometimes strongly criticized it. He argued against threats to Marxism's foundations and is considered a structural Marxist, though he was also critical of other French structuralist schools. Unfortunately, during a bout of mental illness, Althusser strangled his wife to death. The document also defines ideology as a set of ideas that constitute one's goals and actions, as promoted by a society's dominant class. It discusses how ideologies shape public matters and that every political or economic tendency leads to an ideology. Hegemony refers to the predominance of one social class over others through political, economic,