Under monopoly capitalism classes persist objectively while becoming socially invisible.

Evidence

According to Adorno, under monopoly capitalism, ‘the untrue aspect of the concept of class’ – that is, the impossibility of an overarching proletarian class-consciousness – has become visible. Yet at the same time, the objective persistence of classes has been made ‘virtually invisible’; ‘[b]ourgeois sociology of all nations’ no longer recognises their existence. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 680

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The invisibility-of-class dynamic parallels how real class stratification persists behind ideological denial — relates to the argument in ‘On Sacrifice’ about how ideologies stabilize stratified societies by masking their foundation.
• XREF: connects to: Ideological control persists even in a classless society — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 639; Ideology represents workers as individual consumers bound by invisible contracts. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 911; Monopoly capitalism splits lived experience from the structures governing it — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 877 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Domination in advanced capitalism is masked as neutral administration and objectivity #corroborates (0.88) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 186
• Ideology represents workers as individual consumers bound by invisible contracts. #exemplifies (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 911
• Market ideology fragments classes into individual consumers and hides production #corroborates (0.85)
• Monopoly capitalism splits lived experience from the structures governing it #expands (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 877
• Capitalism’s socialized labor is experienced by individuals as alien market relations #expands (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 889
• Postindustrial society narratives ideologically mask continuing class struggle. #corroborates (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 39
• Transforming capitalist society requires understanding its opaque base and superstructures #expands (0.78)
• Ideological control persists even in a classless society #expands (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 639