Under late capitalism, political questions become inseparable from theoretical ones

Evidence

In such a situation, within the United States itself, there is no tactical or political question which is not first and foremost theoretical, no form of action which is not inextricably entangled in the sticky cobwebs of the false and unreal culture itself, with its ideological mystification on every level. Not whether the street fighter or urban guerrilla can win against the weapons and technology of the modern state, but rather precisely where the street is in the superstate, and, indeed, whether the old-fashioned street as such still exists in the first place in that seamless web of marketing and automated production which makes up the new state: such are the theoretical problems of Marxism today, at least in what might be termed the overdeveloped countries. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 26

Categorization

• XREF: The reworking of the street/guerrilla question into ‘where is the street in the superstate’ is Jameson’s dialectical displacement of 1960s activism, touching his later thinking on totality and the impossibility of local action. — connects to: In late capitalism cultural theory displaces tactical political questions; Theorizing away the concept of totality serves capitalism by hiding it from political challenge — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 713; Neoliberalism reframed politics as an epistemological question of what can be known — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 54 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Theorizing away the concept of totality serves capitalism by hiding it from political challenge #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 713
• Neoliberalism reframed politics as an epistemological question of what can be known #exemplifies (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 54