Ideological human-rights commitments can produce real emancipatory effects.

Evidence

Human rights, for example, may very well be ideology, yet for people living in countries committed to the appearance of upholding them, ideology can have real, emancipatory effects: Freedom and equality are appearances which mediate the relations of exchange and capital. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 817

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: human rights as materially consequential ideology — the gap between declared commitment and practice is itself politically productive.
• XREF: connects to: Bourgeois ideological appearances can have real emancipatory effects for the oppressed. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 818; Ideologies achieve effects by inflecting existing attitudes, not by domination or false consciousness.; Human rights associations prompt high-capacity monarchies to grant controlled political amnesties. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 391

Broader Connections

• Bourgeois ideological appearances can have real emancipatory effects for the oppressed. #corroborates (0.95) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 818
• Ideologies achieve effects by inflecting existing attitudes, not by domination or false consciousness. #complicates (0.75)