Libertarian sexual ideology spread by leisured elites degrades working-class habits

Evidence

It is worth insisting on the fact that in the sexual field the most depraving and “regressive” ideological factor is the enlightened and libertarian conception proper to those classes which are not tightly bound to productive work and spread by them among the working classes. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1114

Categorization

• DEFINE: Identifies the “enlightened and libertarian conception” as an ideological factor tied to class position — a definition of how ideology tracks class relation to productive work.
• XREF: Connects to Marx on ruling ideas, and to how subsequent criticism frames bourgeois ‘liberation’ imposed on workers. — connects to: Middle-class respectability politics simultaneously attacked working-class idleness and upper-class hedonism. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 857