the marxian economist harry cleaver acknowledged in "reading capital politically" (2000) that althusser and his co-authors provided "one of the most politically important of the philosophical readings" of "das kapital". however, he considered their influence regrettable, writing that in "for marx" and "reading capital", althusser's aim was to revitalize dialectical materialism "as an ideology to mediate the widely discredited political practices of the french communist party." he accused althusser of ignoring working class struggles in favor of an abstract "science of history", and noted that althusser himself admitted that "reading capital" largely ignored the class struggle.