Class position includes a temporal trajectory alongside its antagonistic relation to other classes

Evidence

For if the noblesse de robe failed to make its revolution, if there exist social contradictions which are structurally insoluble, at the same time we must remember the fact of successful revolutions as well, and make a place for an art which might be prophetic rather than fantasy-oriented, one which might portend genuine solutions underway rather than projecting formal substitutes for impossible ones. The Marxist concept of class, in other words, involves a diachronic dimension as well as the synchronic, differential one we have emphasized up to this point: a class is defined no less by its place in the historical process, by its participation in a given and determinate stage in historical evolution, than by its antagonistic relationship to the other classes contemporaneous with it. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 743

Categorization

• XREF: Diachronic-synchronic class definition connects directly to Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness, where class consciousness is determined by the class’s place in the historical process. — connects to: A class’s historical fate registers as an internal felt mood rather than external data — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 743; Class analysis must shift dynamically across context and history — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 48; Two model classes explain temporal integration via long versus short time constants (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Introduces the diachronic dimension of Marxist class analysis as opposed to the purely structural/synchronic one.

Broader Connections

• A class’s historical fate registers as an internal felt mood rather than external data #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 743
• Two model classes explain temporal integration via long versus short time constants #exemplifies (0.78)
• Narrowing equality to within-class comparisons makes self-placement tolerable #expands (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2168
• Class analysis must shift dynamically across context and history #complicates (0.72) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 48
• Subjectivity is asymmetrically dependent on objectivity #complicates (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2543