Neoliberal erasure of class discourse captures struggles for bourgeois liberalism

Evidence

Socialist-feminism converted Lukács’s theory of class consciousness into the practice of consciousness-raising. Since consciousness-raising has been used by all kinds of subjugated groups, it would perhaps be better to talk now of subjugated group consciousness rather than (just) class consciousness. But it is worth noting in passing that neoliberalism has sought to eradicate the very concept of class, producing a situation memorably described by Wendy Brown, in which there is “class resentment without class consciousness or class analysis”. This erasure of class has distorted everything, and allowed many struggles to be rhetorically captured by bourgeois liberalism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1374

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the wider arc of K-Punk’s political theory and to Lukács’s theory of class consciousness as developed across Fisher’s corpus. — connects to: An all-encompassing discourse-determinism erases class, gender, and all resistance. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 815; Neoliberal education policy deliberately dismantled the art-school mixing of working-class culture and theory — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1541; Neoliberalism aimed at class decomposition, not market freedom (+4 more)
• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the sacrifice article’s theme of how dominant rhetoric captures and reframes subaltern grievances.

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism aimed at class decomposition, not market freedom #corroborates (0.95)
• Neoliberalism replaces class analysis with a cynical catechism of limitless self-transformation #expands (0.90) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 332
• Neoliberalism abolishes classes, the individual, and Lockean property in one move #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 164
• Postindustrial society narratives ideologically mask continuing class struggle. #corroborates (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 39
• Neoliberal denial of class categories paralyzed Obama-era tax policy debates #exemplifies (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 335