Ideology’s imaginary relation serves expanded reproduction of capitalism, not just class dominance.

Evidence

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

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s framing of Hall as a contributor to economic thought: this shows ideology theory as an account of how capitalist production reproduce itself. — connects to: Capitalist relations must be reproduced ideologically, not just economically — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628; Ideology’s imaginary relation functions to reproduce capitalist production relations — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 195; The theory of ideology must hold both relative autonomy and economic determination simultaneously. (+5 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing how Hall reconciles Althusser’s reproductive function of ideology with his own later insistence on contingency and overdetermination rather than functional necessity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 195

Broader Connections

• Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903