Class is a contingent articulation of demands, not an ultimate core.

Evidence

The return of the ‘people’ as a political category can be seen as a contribution to this expansion of horizons, because it helps to present other categories – such as class – for what they are: contingent and particular forms of articulating demands, not an ultimate core from which the nature of the demands themselves could be explained. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 487

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Class antagonism cannot be deduced from the concept of capital. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 298; A class becomes a people when its name outweighs its concept. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 362; Austerity’s deeper purpose is taming class conflict, not balancing budgets. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 47 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Class consciousness is a self-destroying strategic artifice, not an inalienable identity. #corroborates (0.85) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1763
• Class consciousness functions as an artificial rallying device rather than a natural given. #corroborates (0.80)
• Austerity’s deeper purpose is taming class conflict, not balancing budgets. #complicates (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 47