Market-centered accounts of capitalism function as ideology masking production

Evidence

If in spite of that Marx has always been (rightly) understood as seeing production as the key to understanding the other processes, that is because the mainstream of economic thought before and since (and including Michaels) persists in absolutizing consumption and the market. The affirmation of the “primacy of production,” (whatever that might mean exactly), offers the most effective and powerful way of defamiliarizing and demystifying ideologies of the market itself and consumption-oriented models of capitalism. As a vision of capitalism, then, the affirmation of the primacy of the market is sheer ideology. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 475

Categorization

• XREF: This is the type of totalizing, base-superstructure claim the reader wants to test for falsifiability against lived position in the world system. — connects to: Postmodern political change flows from markets rather than mass struggles — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 273; Domination in advanced capitalism is masked as neutral administration and objectivity — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 186; Marxist categories still explain contemporary multinational and media capitalism — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 48 (+8 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies what a ‘totalizing concept’ does analytically and why production-priority defamiliarizes market ideology — useful for the reader’s explanatory project.