Adorno declared belief that social existence determines consciousness.

Evidence

Adorno gave his thesis quite a surprising Marxist turn in its conclusion. He observed that the theories of the unconscious which he had criticized served as ideologies which partly transfigured the governing economic order and partly distracted attention from it. These social conditions, characterized by economic competition' and imperialist tendencies’, set limits on any process of enlightenment. In brief, without actually naming it as such, he declared his belief in the Marxist theory that consciousness was determined by social existence. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 331

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno held that individuals were so socialized that psychology dissolved into sociology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1815; Adorno treated individual psyche as the locus where objective social laws operate. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1838; Adorno extends Marx by linking systemic antagonisms to every individual’s consciousness — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1389 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Social being determines consciousness, not the reverse #corroborates (1.00) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2495
• Adorno extends Marx by linking systemic antagonisms to every individual’s consciousness #expands (0.90) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1389
• Adorno treats exchange as a principle shaping thought and feeling to the innermost being. #expands (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 930
• Adorno saw formal logic as a social artifact mirroring commodity exchange. #expands (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 266