Adorno held that power withdraws into and then destroys the economic apparatus

Evidence

It is not the case that the laws of exchange have produced the most recent form of power as the historically appropriate form for the reproduction of society as a whole at the present stage, … Rather, the old form of power at times withdrew into the economic apparatus in order, on gaining full control of it, to destroy it and thus ease its own existence. In the process of abolishing classes in this way, class domination comes into its own. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1332

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Disagreement with Pollock forced Adorno to retain economic critique — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 586; Adorno held that economic primacy existed always but varied in strength — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1177

Broader Connections

• Disagreement with Pollock forced Adorno to retain economic critique #expands (0.78) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 586
• Adorno held that economic primacy existed always but varied in strength #corroborates (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1177