Symbolic systems function as instruments of domination by reproducing class relations in transfigured form

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Symbolic systems do double duty as communication and as instruments of domination.; Class equilibrium creates the appearance of a neutral, autonomous state; Ideology’s imaginary relation functions to reproduce capitalist production relations — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 195 (+8 more)

Related

• Ideology’s imaginary relation functions to reproduce capitalist production relations (similarity 0.82)
• Symbolic systems do double duty as communication and as instruments of domination. (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation serves expanded reproduction of capitalism, not just class dominance. (similarity 0.78)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ideology’s imaginary relation functions to reproduce capitalist production relations #corroborates (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 195
• Power operates through symbolic influence while coercion abandons symbolic generalization #expands (0.82)
• Binary schematization’s completeness claim masks the imposition behind any dichotomy #corroborates (0.78)
• Authority functions as a representation of unexplored complexity #complicates (0.72)
• Symbolic systems do double duty as communication and as instruments of domination. #expands (0.70)
• Symbolic definition and coercion both constitute state social control #expands (0.50)
• Weber’s elective-affinity method relocated ideology analysis from content to structural homology #corroborates (0.50)
• Class equilibrium creates the appearance of a neutral, autonomous state #expands (0.45)