Adorno’s Fetish-Character essay omitted Marx’s question of the specific form of socialisation.

Evidence

This criticism must havestuckanerve:whileAdorno’sessayclaimstointroduceMarxiancategories into the analysis of the reception of music, nowhere in its discussion of the categories of commodity, use-value, exchange-value and fetishism does it pose the question of the specific form of socialisation – the very question which leads Marx to attend to these categories in the first place. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 452

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s ‘use-value-in-itself’ assumption departs from and contradicts Marxian theory — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 230; Adorno’s Marxist musical theory avoided analyzing actual sociological ties between music and society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 368

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s ‘use-value-in-itself’ assumption departs from and contradicts Marxian theory #expands (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 230