No cultural form permanently expresses any class until struggle gives it that accent

Evidence

Not only is there no intrinsic guarantee within the cultural sign or form itself. There is no guarantee that, because at one time it was linked with a pertinent struggle, that it will always be the living expression of a class: so that every time you give it an airing it will “speak the language of socialism.” If cultural expressions register for socialism, it is because they have been linked as the practices, the forms and organization of a living struggle, which has succeeded in appropriating those symbols and giving them a socialist connotation. Culture is not already permanently inscribed with the conditions of a class before that struggle begins. The struggle consists in the success or failure to give “the cultural” a socialist accent. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1021