Materialist mentality self-reinforces through its own dissemination

Evidence

Because one is acting essentially on economic forces, reorganising and developing the apparatus of economic production, creating a new structure, the conclusion must not be drawn that superstructural factors should be left to themselves, to develop spontaneously, to a haphazard and sporadic germination. The State, in this field, too, is an instrument of “rationalisation”, of acceleration and of Taylorisation. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 926 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The compulsion to consume everything newest replaces rational need with anxiety about falling behind; Proletarian self-knowledge as commodity is already practical, not merely theoretical — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 75; Internet self-representation conceals a capitalist infrastructure producing the self as commodity (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Economic restructuring does not make superstructural self-development automatic #complicates (0.76) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 926