Ideology expresses lived imaginary relations rather than actual conditions of existence.

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628; Ideology appears as manifest surface while its real foundations are hidden; Ideology’s imaginary relation functions to reproduce capitalist production relations — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 195 (+10 more)

Related

• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (similarity 0.97)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation functions to reproduce capitalist production relations (similarity 0.93)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation serves expanded reproduction of capitalism, not just class dominance. (similarity 0.90)
• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness (similarity 0.89)
• Ideology expresses how people live their relation to conditions, not the relation itself. (similarity 0.88)
• Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought. (similarity 0.85)
• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology study requires explaining how non-ideas determine ideas without slipping into idealism. (similarity 0.84)
• Capitalist production relations are reproduced socially and ideologically, not just economically (similarity 0.83)
• Market ideology fragments classes into individual consumers and hides production (similarity 0.83)
• Ideologies are false inflections of real relations, not falsehoods about them (similarity 0.83)
• Ideologies achieve effects by inflecting existing attitudes, not by domination or false consciousness. (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalist relations must be reproduced ideologically, not just economically (similarity 0.82)
• Ideologies are material relations enacted through institutions and practices (similarity 0.82)
• Concepts like ideology and representation remain indispensable for understanding society (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence #corroborates (0.85)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation serves expanded reproduction of capitalism, not just class dominance. #expands (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 195