Capitalist development required the active re-education and moralization of working-class culture

Evidence

There is no separate, autonomous, “authentic” layer of working-class culture to be found. Much of the most immediate forms of popular recreation, for example, are saturated by popular imperialism. Could we expect otherwise? How could we explain, and what would we do with the idea of, the culture of a dominated class which, despite its complex interior formations and differentiations, stood in a very particular relation to a major restructuring of capital; which itself stood in a peculiar relation to the rest of the world; a people bound by the most complex ties to a changing set of material relations and conditions; who managed somehow to construct “a culture” which remained untouched by the most powerful dominant ideology—popular imperialism? Especially when that ideology—belying its name—was directed as much at them as it was at Britain’s changing position in a world capitalist expansion? — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 997 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalism reproduces itself by drawing civil and cultural life into conformity with its needs; Capitalism’s reproduction requires family, education, and media apparatuses; Capitalism requires continuous re-education of the popular classes through cultural struggle (+13 more)

Related

• Working-class recreation was saturated by popular imperialism rather than autonomous (similarity 0.87)
• Capitalism requires continuous re-education of the popular classes through cultural struggle (similarity 0.86)
• Capitalist formation required the continuous re-education and cultural remaking of working people (similarity 0.86)
• No authentic autonomous working-class culture existed apart from imperial ideology (similarity 0.85)
• Popular-class culture is always shaped by dominant cultural production institutions (similarity 0.80)
• The 1930s lacked a militant radical working-class culture despite socialist expectation (similarity 0.78)
• Mass commercial culture is produced for workers, not by workers (similarity 0.78)
• Capital’s dominance is the real message of every cultural product (similarity 0.78)
• Ethnic divisions within a working class can be exploited to strengthen capitalist rule (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism requires continuous re-education of the popular classes through cultural struggle #corroborates (0.85)
• Social reproduction of labor-power requires family, education, and cultural institutions #expands (0.60)
• Mass culture and mass markets were integral to corporate capitalism’s ascendancy #corroborates (0.60)
• Working-class recreation was saturated by popular imperialism rather than autonomous #corroborates (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 997
• Ethnic divisions within a working class can be exploited to strengthen capitalist rule #exemplifies (0.50)