"Thus the democratic enfranchisement of all citizens within political society; and the economic enfranchisement of all consumers within the free-enterprise economy, would rapidly be paralleled by the cultural absorption of all groups into the culture of the centre. Pluralism rested on these three mutually reinforcing supports. In its purest form, pluralism assured that no structural barriers or limits of class would obstruct this process of cultural absorption: for as we all ‘knew,’ America was no longer a class society."

--- Stuart Hall, from "The rediscovery of ‘ideology’: return of the repressed in media studies," 1982.