Historical Materialism in Althusser's formulation treats its own foundational categories as unrevisable, violating even the minimal coherentist standard for acceptable circularity.

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Althusser(as the philosopher whose theory is being discussed): Louis Althusser was a 20th-century French philosopher who argued that ideology is a system that makes people accept the world as it is, without questioning it—especially how society is organized with certain groups having power over others.
Coherentist standard(in epistemology, the study of how we know things): A philosophical test for truth that asks whether your beliefs fit together logically without contradicting each other (like pieces of a puzzle).
Historical Materialism(Althusser's epistemology): Marx's science of history, which for Althusser provides the general framework for understanding scientific practice and knowledge production across all sciences
circularity(as used in logic and epistemology): A logical problem where an explanation depends on the very thing it's trying to explain, going in a circle rather than providing genuine support.

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