Adorno’s liberation aims beyond use-value to abolish value categories entirely

Evidence

However, this liberation would not deliver human beings to infinitely redeemed use-values, but rather from capitalism altogether – including from its elementary categories of value and use-value. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1347

Categorization

• XREF: Directly counters the common reading that Adorno’s critique of exchange abstracts toward a redemption of concrete use-values; the passage says the opposite. — connects to: Adorno’s use-value destruction thesis contradicts Marx’s commodity definition — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 440; Adorno and Horkheimer revised their culture-industry claim to avoid equating use-value with actual use — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 882; Adorno modeled the non-identical on use-value, not derived use-value from it. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1295