. In these terms one could say that Ilyich advanced philosophy as philosophy in so far as he advanced political doctrine and practice. The realization of a hegemonic apparatus, in so far as it creates a new ideological terrain, determines a reform of consciousness and of methods of knowledge: it is a fact of knowledge. a philosophical fact. In Crocrean terms: when one succeeds in introducing a new morality in conformity with a new conception of the world, one finishes by introducing the conception as well;in other words, one determines a reform of the whole of philosophy