Class struggle offers a viewpoint immune to systemic self-regulation’s allure

Evidence

But this realism of systemic self-regulation, and this perfectly sealed circle of facts and interpretations, can be judged paranoid only if one has, or claims to have, at one’s disposal a viewpoint that is in principle immune from their allure. This is the function of the principle of class struggle in theories of society based on the work of Marx. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 153

Categorization

• DEFINE: Positioning of class struggle as an external standpoint that exposes systemic ‘paranoia’.
• XREF: This is the critical-dualism pole Jameson inherits in his Marxist analysis of postmodernism. — connects to: Oppositional workers’ organizations mirror capitalist structure and thereby absorb class struggle; Self-understanding is achieved through struggle between opposing hegemonies — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1199; Conflating class-State with regulated society is a reactionary middle-class error (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Oppositional workers’ organizations mirror capitalist structure and thereby absorb class struggle #complicates (0.85)
• Self-understanding is achieved through struggle between opposing hegemonies #expands (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1199
• Conflating class-State with regulated society is a reactionary middle-class error #corroborates (0.78)