Economically backward groups can hold genuine temporal disparity, not mere backwardness

Evidence

The vulnerable position of farm workers and white-collar workers reflects various conditions here, not merely one of backwardness, but also at times one of genuine `temporal disparity’ as well, i.e. that of being an economic and ideological remnant from earlier periods. Today the contradictions within this temporal disparity exclusively serve reaction; but a special Marxist problem lies in the way in which it can be exploited almost without disturbance. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 210

Categorization

• DEFINE: ‘Temporal disparity’ names the condition of being an economic and ideological remnant from an earlier period.
• QUESTION: Why do the contradictions within temporal disparity now serve reaction ‘exclusively’? The mechanism deserves follow-up.
• XREF: connects to: Marginalized groups’ deceleration does not falsify acceleration as modernity’s defining trait — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 138; Social change does not follow a single instrumental motive because people inhabit multiple temporalities — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1064; Social structure determines whether a society experiences time cyclically or linearly — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 84
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marginalized groups’ deceleration does not falsify acceleration as modernity’s defining trait — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 138; Social change does not follow a single instrumental motive because people inhabit multiple temporalities — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1064; Social structure determines whether a society experiences time cyclically or linearly — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 84