First World subjects’ belief in postindustrial society distorts political practice.

Evidence

Yet to reformulate the problem in this way is also to come starkly up against those very difficulties in mapping which are posed in heightened and original ways by that very global space of the postmodernist or multinational moment which has been under discussion here. These are not merely theoretical issues; they have urgent practical political consequences, as is evident from the conventional feelings of First World subjects that existentially (or “empirically”) they really do inhabit a “postindustrial society” from which traditional production has disappeared and in which social classes of the classical type no longer exist — a conviction which has immediate effects on political praxis. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 169

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is testable: does the felt absence of class actually alter political action in measurable ways? Useful for assessing the falsifiability of the cultural-dominant thesis.
• XREF: connects to: Laing’s subject politics severed revolutionary change from material social conditions — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 666