A lying critique of exchange can still speak for truth

Evidence

Since, however, free and honest exchange is itself a lie, to deny it is at the same time to speak for truth: in face of the lie of the commodity world, even the lie that denounces it becomes a corrective. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 39

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The paradoxical claim that a false denunciation counters the commodity world’s lie — a dense piece of dialectical reversibility worth sitting with.
• XREF: connects to: A claim’s falsity does not bar it from structuring thought — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 179; Partial, deformed truths within society remain genuine truths for Adorno. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 814

Broader Connections

• A claim’s falsity does not bar it from structuring thought #corroborates (0.92) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 179