Ideological consciousness arises from phenomenal exchange relations, not directly from production.

Evidence

It therefore has the function, at one and the same time, of: (a) transforming one relation into its opposite—the “camera obscura ”; (b) making the latter, which is part of the relations of production and exchange under capitalism, appear as, or stand for , the whole—this is the theory of fetishism , developed in the first chapter of the first volume of Capital ; (c) and also making the latter—the real foundations of capitalist society, in production—disappear from view , the effect of concealment . Hence, we can only “see” that labor and production are realized through the market: we can no longer “see” that it is in production that labor is exploited and the surplus value extracted. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 890 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

The idiom of revolutionary consciousness had been historical and cultural rather than the “mirror of production.” The oppositions that had struck most deeply at capitalist domination and imperialism had been those formed outside the logic of bourgeois hegemony. In Black Reconstruction, Du Bois had tried to give these processes a concrete, historical appearance. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1130 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Revolutionary consciousness arises from cultural idiom, not from productive relations (similarity 0.86)
• Capitalist production relations are reproduced socially and ideologically, not just economically (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation functions to reproduce capitalist production relations (similarity 0.83)
• Market ideology conceals exploitation by making exchange stand in for production (similarity 0.82)
• Market ideology fragments classes into individual consumers and hides production (similarity 0.81)
• Ideology disrupts predicted historical processes and enables revolutions (similarity 0.80)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (similarity 0.80)
• Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse (similarity 0.79)
• Black revolutionary consciousness derives from the whole historical experience of Black people. (similarity 0.79)
• Ideas can only be dissolved by overturning material social relations, not criticism. (similarity 0.79)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation serves expanded reproduction of capitalism, not just class dominance. (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalist relations must be reproduced ideologically, not just economically (similarity 0.78)
• Ideology expresses lived imaginary relations rather than actual conditions of existence. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Market ideology conceals exploitation by making exchange stand in for production #exemplifies (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 890
• Revolutionary consciousness arises from cultural idiom, not from productive relations #corroborates (0.45) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1130