Capitalist production relations are reproduced socially and ideologically, not just economically

Evidence

It was only a short step—the one which separates For Marx from Althusser’s “Ideological State Apparatuses”—to the development of an account of how this “imaginary relation” served, not simply the dominance of a ruling class over a dominated one, but (through the reproduction of the relations of production, and the constitution of labor-power in a form fit for capitalist exploitation) the expanded reproduction of the mode of production itself. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 195 (#expands, via linked claim)

Marx however insisted, not merely that men live their relations to their real conditions of existence “in ideology,” but that, in the capitalist mode of production, they will “think” those conditions, in general, within the limits of a dominant ideology; and that, generally, this will tend to be the ideology of the dominant classes . The fact that the proletariat “lives” the collective socialization of labor, under capitalism, through the fragmenting form of the market , and thinks this condition of its material life within the discourses which organize market practices ideologically (or that, under capitalism the proletariat “lives” the expropriation of surplus value in the “ideological form” of wages —a form giving rise to its own ideological discourses: wage bargaining, economism, what Lenin called “trade-union consciousness,” “a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work,” etc.) is not, for Marx, simply a descriptive feature of capitalism. These ideological inflections perform a pivotal role in the maintenance of capitalist relations and in their continuing domination within the social formation. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalism reproduces itself by drawing civil and cultural life into conformity with its needs; Capitalist relations must be reproduced ideologically, not just economically — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628; Workers accept dominant economic narratives while acting oppositionally locally (+34 more)

Related

• Ideological inflections like wage bargaining maintain capitalist domination, not merely describe it. (similarity 0.92)
• Capitalist relations must be reproduced ideologically, not just economically (similarity 0.92)
• Market ideology conceals exploitation by making exchange stand in for production (similarity 0.91)
• Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination (similarity 0.90)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation serves expanded reproduction of capitalism, not just class dominance. (similarity 0.90)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation functions to reproduce capitalist production relations (similarity 0.89)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (similarity 0.87)
• Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role (similarity 0.86)
• Market ideology fragments classes into individual consumers and hides production (similarity 0.85)
• Marx distinguishes material economic transformation from ideological forms of consciousness (similarity 0.83)
• Ideology expresses lived imaginary relations rather than actual conditions of existence. (similarity 0.83)
• Material and social reproduction occur simultaneously and inseparably (similarity 0.82)
• Ideological consciousness arises from phenomenal exchange relations, not directly from production. (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalism’s socialized labor is experienced by individuals as alien market relations (similarity 0.80)
• The economy is not a machine but a set of exploitative social relations. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Ideology’s imaginary relation serves expanded reproduction of capitalism, not just class dominance. #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 195
• Market ideology conceals exploitation by making exchange stand in for production #exemplifies (0.75)
• Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination #exemplifies (0.70) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. #expands (0.60)