Peloponnesian War. Introduction. Athens and Sparta, both powerful Greek city-states, had fought as allies in the Greco-Persian Wars between 499 and 449 B.C. In the wake of the Persian retreat, however, Athens grew more powerful and tensions rose, escalating into nearly three decades of war.
READING GUIDE TO: the chapter on Rousseau, Althusser L (1972) Politics and History, Part 2, New Left Books: London. Here, Althusser argues that ideology is a theoretical practice, which is locked in a problematic which defines both problems and solutions.
The political expression of altruism is collectivism or statism, which holds that manâs life and work belong to the stateâto society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nationâand that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.