A just exchange of equivalents would abolish the exchange category itself

Evidence

If workers were no longer deprived of their real earnings by the owners of capital for whom they work, then ‘the category of exchange would abolish itself’ because ‘the exchange of equivalents would become truth’. This would also cause the disintegration of the system of all other economic categories such as class, commodity, money and capital – exchange would no longer be economic, and humanity would be liberated from ‘[just] exchange by [exchange] fulfil[ling] itself [justly]’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1556

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Adorno’s distinctive utopian position: the self-abolition of exchange through its own fulfillment, not its negation.
• XREF: connects to: Use-value and exchange-value can only be superseded together, never separately — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1281; Exchange society is immanently critical because equivalence contradicts itself — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1382; Abolition of equivalent exchange is its fulfillment, not its negation — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1554 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Fulfilling the concept of free exchange reveals it as its own opposite #corroborates (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1601
• Exchange is a change within each party, not a thing between them. #qualifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 223