A single heroic bourgeois ideology is simultaneously liberating and class-pleading

Evidence

For the eighteenth-century middle classes are from our point of view both progressive and reactionary, in that they represent the rising fortunes of a class nonetheless in the long run historically doomed. And they are both these things at once: that heroic and universalizing ideology which was theirs may be seen at one and the same time as a part of the patrimony of mankind as a whole, with its logic of political liberation which has remained active in the Third World of our own day, and as an example of special class pleading. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 746

Categorization

• XREF: This two-sided reading of bourgeois universalism echoes the ideology critique in The Eighteenth Brumaire (Marx) and anticipates Jameson’s later notion in The Political Unconscious of ideology as both class apologetics and utopian longing. — connects to: Bourgeois ideology fragments classes into possessive individual subjects. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 912; Neoliberalism was both a class-power project and a coherent ideology. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 478

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism was both a class-power project and a coherent ideology. #exemplifies (0.85) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 478
• Bourgeois ideology fragments classes into possessive individual subjects. #qualifies (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 912