Market ideology fragments classes into individual consumers and hides production

Evidence

It was, in this sense, that “experience” was conceived, not as an authenticating source but as an effect: not as a reflection of the real but as an “imaginary relation.” 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 masks class by fragmenting people into individuals bound as consumers and citizens; Juridico-political ideology masks the economic’s determinant role under capitalism; Market relations are real yet structurally unable to express the underlying social labor (+23 more)

Related

• Market ideology conceals exploitation by making exchange stand in for production (similarity 0.88)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (similarity 0.87)
• Ideology represents workers as individual consumers bound by invisible contracts. (similarity 0.86)
• Capitalist production relations are reproduced socially and ideologically, not just economically (similarity 0.85)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation functions to reproduce capitalist production relations (similarity 0.85)
• Market relations are real yet systematically hide their basis in production (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation serves expanded reproduction of capitalism, not just class dominance. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology expresses lived imaginary relations rather than actual conditions of existence. (similarity 0.83)
• Market ideology is real practice, not fantasy, because it legitimately misrepresents production (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought. (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology masks class by dissolving classes into individual subjects then rebinding them as nation (similarity 0.81)
• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them (similarity 0.81)
• Ideologies are false inflections of real relations, not falsehoods about them (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalist relations must be reproduced ideologically, not just economically (similarity 0.80)
• Ideological inflections like wage bargaining maintain capitalist domination, not merely describe it. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist production relations are reproduced socially and ideologically, not just economically #expands (0.70)
• Ideology appears as manifest surface while its real foundations are hidden #corroborates (0.65)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation functions to reproduce capitalist production relations #expands (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 195