Late-capitalist crises are displaced from economy onto culture as legitimation gaps

Evidence

It is this process which is responsible for the social pathologies of late capitalism, where economic contradictions are displaced, thanks to the Keynesian welfare-state compromise between labour and capital, on to the cultural sphere, producing, through the resulting politicization of the market, an increased demand for legitimation which the progressive monetarization and bureaucratization of everyday life prevent from being met. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 403

Categorization

• XREF: The displacement of economic contradictions onto culture is exactly the mechanism Jameson describes for postmodernism — yet Habermas locates the cause in system differentiation rather than capital itself. — connects to: Habermas overstates late capitalism’s success in overcoming Marxian contradictions — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 444; Late capitalism survives crises by incorporating whatever previously stood outside it — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 102; In late capitalism the economic base generates its cultural superstructures directly — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 32 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Late capitalism survives crises by incorporating whatever previously stood outside it #expands (0.85) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 102
• In late capitalism the economic base generates its cultural superstructures directly #contradicts (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 32
• Ideology shapes economic crisis rather than merely reflecting it #expands (0.75)