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critical theory must eschew the Durkheimian assumption of a single, overarching pattern of cultural value

the imbrication of class inequality and status hierarchy in contemporary society

Such a reduction of labour to a fulsome economic zero

As the French Marxist Louis Althusser pointed out in his essay on the ideological state apparatuses, this is what makes the ‘interpellation’ process (his name for a particular kind of capitalist indoctrination) so effective

Neoliberalism – the reduction of all social life to the logic of profit-seeking behaviour – ought to have disappeared in 2008, and a form of it certainly did