For Thompson every mode of production is also a culture.

Evidence

Each consequently accords “experience” an authenticating position in any cultural analysis. It is, ultimately, where and how people experience their conditions of life, define them, and respond to them, which for Thompson defines why every mode of production is also a culture, and every struggle between classes is always also a struggle between cultural modalities; and which, for Williams, is what a “cultural analysis,” in the final instance, should deliver. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 191

Categorization

• XREF: Links to Gramsci’s insight that every class struggle is also a cultural struggle; connects to the reader’s broader interest in how ideas become political forces.