Class position determines how commodities are perceived and categorized.

Evidence

It is commodities that structure our original relationship to objects of the world, that shape the categories through which we see all other objects. Yet such objects are ambiguous; they vary in appearance accordingly as their objective nature or their subjective origin is emphasized. Thus for the bourgeois, a commodity is a solid material thing whose cause is relatively unimportant, relatively secondary: his relationship to such an object is one of pure consumption. The worker, on the other hand, knows the finished product as little more than a moment in the process of production itself: his attitude toward the outside world will thereby be significantly altered. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 380

Categorization

• XREF: Grounds commodity fetishism and the base/superstructure relation in perception itself — connects to Jameson’s later work on reification and late-capitalist culture. — connects to: Class position rests on work type, capital access, and cultural value — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 60; For Marx the commodity structures people’s actions, worldviews, and dispositions — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 782; A class’s core asset type shapes its taste in material goods — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 315

Broader Connections

• Class position rests on work type, capital access, and cultural value #expands (0.85) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 60
• For Marx the commodity structures people’s actions, worldviews, and dispositions #corroborates (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 782