Cultural influence detached from popular masses lacks real political weight

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• Popular culture refers not to one class but an alliance of subordinated classes (similarity 0.85)
• Mass adhesion is the critical test of an ideology’s historical rationality (similarity 0.83)
• Culture as shared meaning-making became democratized rather than elite civilization. (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural meaning shifts with the social field it enters (similarity 0.83)
• The New Left expanded rather than collapsed the definition of culture and politics (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural meanings are unstable and shift with the social field (similarity 0.82)
• Political movements must engage the religious terrain where religion is the dominant ideological domain. (similarity 0.82)
• Identity politics freezes identity in false shapes for political convenience. (similarity 0.82)
• Democracy can function on recognition by only a minority (similarity 0.82)
• Schooling matters for hegemony because intellectuals depend on it economically (similarity 0.81)
• Calls for new culture come from socially displaced old strata, not new ones (similarity 0.81)
• Mass media emerged with agrarian capitalism as culture itself became a commodity. (similarity 0.81)
• War-of-position politics is the only available political game for the marginalized (similarity 0.81)
• Political passion arises from economic life yet transcends self-interested profit calculation. (similarity 0.81)
• The master-producer relation is the hidden foundation of all political forms (similarity 0.81)