Discourse is not reducible to class interest yet is never neutral

Evidence

Foucault is very reluctant to reduce discourse to statements that simply mirror the interests of a particular class. The same discourse can be used by groups with different, even contradictory, class interests. But this does not mean that discourse is ideologically neutral or “innocent.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 581

Categorization

• XREF: Distinguishes discourse theory from vulgar Marxist class-interest reductionism; connects to Gramscian hegemony where ideology works through shared common sense rather than direct class reflection. — connects to: Sacralized political discourse becomes constitutive regardless of professed sincerity — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 98; No description is ideologically neutral; describing constructs its own object — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 384; Scholarship is never neutral, so honesty requires declaring one’s standpoint (+1 more)