Ideological inflections like wage bargaining maintain capitalist domination, not merely describe it.

Evidence

Marx however insisted, not merely that men live their relations to their real conditions of existence “in ideology,” but that, in the capitalist mode of production, they will “think” those conditions, in general, within the limits of a dominant ideology; and that, generally, this will tend to be the ideology of the dominant classes . The fact that the proletariat “lives” the collective socialization of labor, under capitalism, through the fragmenting form of the market , and thinks this condition of its material life within the discourses which organize market practices ideologically (or that, under capitalism the proletariat “lives” the expropriation of surplus value in the “ideological form” of wages —a form giving rise to its own ideological discourses: wage bargaining, economism, what Lenin called “trade-union consciousness,” “a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work,” etc.) is not, for Marx, simply a descriptive feature of capitalism. These ideological inflections perform a pivotal role in the maintenance of capitalist relations and in their continuing domination within the social formation. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

It was only a short step—the one which separates For Marx from Althusser’s “Ideological State Apparatuses”—to the development of an account of how this “imaginary relation” served, not simply the dominance of a ruling class over a dominated one, but (through the reproduction of the relations of production, and the constitution of labor-power in a form fit for capitalist exploitation) the expanded reproduction of the mode of production itself. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 195 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalist relations must be reproduced ideologically, not just economically — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628; Hegemony explains class domination without reducing it to narrow class-interest exposure. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 527; Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903 (+7 more)

Related

• Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination (similarity 0.92)
• Capitalist production relations are reproduced socially and ideologically, not just economically (similarity 0.92)
• Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role (similarity 0.88)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation serves expanded reproduction of capitalism, not just class dominance. (similarity 0.88)
• Market ideology conceals exploitation by making exchange stand in for production (similarity 0.88)
• Capitalist relations must be reproduced ideologically, not just economically (similarity 0.87)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (similarity 0.84)
• Marx located ideology in how the wage form appears spontaneously to thought (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation functions to reproduce capitalist production relations (similarity 0.82)
• Hegemony explains class domination without reducing it to narrow class-interest exposure. (similarity 0.81)
• Marx distinguishes material economic transformation from ideological forms of consciousness (similarity 0.81)
• Ideology expresses lived imaginary relations rather than actual conditions of existence. (similarity 0.80)
• High wages derive from monopoly profits and vanish once methods diffuse. (similarity 0.80)
• Market ideology fragments classes into individual consumers and hides production (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination #corroborates (0.95) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903
• Ideology’s imaginary relation serves expanded reproduction of capitalism, not just class dominance. #corroborates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 195
• Capitalist production relations are reproduced socially and ideologically, not just economically #expands (0.70)
• Economic change does not directly supply the content of capitalist ideas #corroborates (0.65)
• Marxism conceives society as overdetermined relatively autonomous levels, not a simple unity #expands (0.60)
• Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role #expands (0.60)