Adorno accepted Pollock’s pessimistic diagnosis of power’s self-perpetuation while rejecting its presentation.

Evidence

Adorno stood by his criticisms: the pessimism of Pollock’s basic idea seemed correct to himthat is, the view that the chances of power being perpetuated in its immediate political form were greater than those of escaping from it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 304

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier Pollock material on state capitalism and to Adorno’s exchange with Horkheimer over the state-capitalism paper. — connects to: Disagreement with Pollock forced Adorno to retain economic critique — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 586
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Disagreement with Pollock forced Adorno to retain economic critique — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 586