Original sentence: Althusser's work has also been criticized from a number of angles.I will argue that the whole of Althusser's theory is made up of the following elements : 1.In 1980, sociologist Axel van der Berg described Kolakowski's critique as "devastating," proving that "Althusser retains the orthodox radical rhetoric by simply severing all connections with verifiable facts.In a 1971 paper for Socialist Register, Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski undertook a detailed critique of structural Marxism, arguing that the concept was seriously flawed on three main points:.In a 1992 review of Althusser's posthumous autobiography for The Independent, journalist Gilbert Adair suggested that one passage wherein Althusser admitted his readings on philosophy were piecemeal "is likely to have destroyed his reputation for ever.Kolakowski further argued that, despite Althusser's claims of scientific rigor, structural Marxism was unfalsifiable and thus unscientific, and was best understood as a quasi-religious ideology.common sense banalities expressed with the help of unnecessarily complicated neologisms; 2.some striking historical inexactitudes.traditional Marxist concepts that are vague and ambiguous in Marx himself (or in Engels) and which remain, after Althusser's explanation, exactly as vague and ambiguous as they were before; 3