Culture’s distance from the economy makes it prone to idealization

Evidence

Unlike the political category of the state, the regulatory and coercive category of law, institutional mechanisms such as political parties or class organizations like trade unions, ‘culture’ generally and the literary/aesthetic realm in particular are situated at great remove from the economy and are therefore, among all the superstructures, the most easily available for idealization and theoretical slippage. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 18

Categorization

• XREF: Reads as a structural explanation for a pattern familiar from religious dress moral panics and other cultural debates where class content gets transmuted into cultural content. — connects to: Western higher culture was feudal because it systematically alienated itself from business. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 285; Financialized commodity culture depends on the autonomy and creativity it purports to swallow. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 567; Cultural nationalism collapses into inverse racism because culture is singularized far from the economy — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 46

Related

• Cultural nationalism collapses into inverse racism because culture is singularized far from the economy (similarity 0.86)
• Western higher culture was feudal because it systematically alienated itself from business. (similarity 0.82)
• Higher culture is neutralized by incorporation into the established order, not by denial. (similarity 0.80)
• Culture need not align with language and state boundaries (similarity 0.79)
• Culture is not superstructural but is where financialized capitalism subjugates social values (similarity 0.79)
• The culturalist paradigm rejects the base-superstructure model of material and ideal forces. (similarity 0.78)
• Culture now shapes the financial economy as much as the economy shapes culture (similarity 0.78)
• Structuralism is organized around ideology while culturalism is not. (similarity 0.78)
• Cultural Studies emerged from a literary rather than economic tradition (similarity 0.78)
• Cultural theory requires a materialist theory of imperial history (similarity 0.78)