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In the following text, we try to systemise the results of different theoretical elaborations which become the part of vividly changing historical conjunctures of the past decades, were led, by the intertwining logics of theoreti­cal work and historical practices, to articulate themselves around Althusser's concept of ideological interpella­tion. Whatever theoretical effects our efforts may have hopefully produced, they have been attempted from within a rather heterogeneous set of practices, and were trying to think, that is, to «organise» in the intellectual and in the political sense, our historical commitments and struggles of the past decades upon a theoretical background where the powerful theoretical apparatus legated by Althusser's re-interpretation of historical ma­terialism had a prominent place. While, during the brilliant marches of the eighties, when, at each step, the his­torical process seemed to overtake the sparkling phrase, we might have been lulled into self-blinding compla­cence, we have now been cruelly crushed back onto the earth, wondering why the eighteenth Brumaire so ob-stinatelly follows different Springs.