Declining open class conflict turns depoliticized masses and politicized society into one contradiction.

Evidence

With the decline of open class antagonisms, the contradiction has taken on a new form: it now appears in the form of a depoliticization of the masses that is simultaneous with an increase in the politicization of society itself. The old disproportion between legally guaranteed equality and actual inequality in the distribution of opportunities to influence politics increases in proportion to the extent that the separation between state and society disappears and social power becomes immediately political. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 577

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The simultaneous depoliticization of the masses and politicization of society is a genuinely counterintuitive formulation of late-capitalist contradiction worth sitting with.