Class struggle has been neutralized in both liberal and communist societies

Evidence

There is insufficient space here to chart the vicissitudes of these struggles, which fill more than a century of social, political, and ideological history. We will have to content ourselves with a glance at the balance sheet, which is possible for us to tally today now that their fate is known: in countries with liberal or advanced liberal management, the struggles and their instruments have been transformed into regulators of the system; in communist countries, the totalizing model and its totalitarian effect have made a comeback in the name of Marxism itself, and the struggles in question have simply been deprived of the right to exist. Everywhere, the Critique of political economy (the subtitle of Marx’sCapital)and its correlate, the critique of alienated society, are used in one way or another as aids in programming the system. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 155

Categorization

• QUESTION: If Marxism’s critical force is co-opted everywhere, what standpoints remain genuinely external to the system?
• XREF: Strong resonance with the fate of critique Jameson tries to recover amid postmodernism. — connects to: Postindustrial society narratives ideologically mask continuing class struggle. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 39; Oppositional workers’ organizations mirror capitalist structure and thereby absorb class struggle; Movements displaced parties by attacking the class system itself (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Postindustrial society narratives ideologically mask continuing class struggle. #contradicts (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 39
• Ideological control persists even in a classless society #corroborates (0.82) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 639
• Oppositional workers’ organizations mirror capitalist structure and thereby absorb class struggle #complicates (0.80)
• Soviet wage differentials and competition destroyed working-class solidarity #exemplifies (0.78)
• Movements displaced parties by attacking the class system itself #expands (0.75)