Adorno refused to normalize capitalism’s transactional corruption of trust.

Evidence

Take, for example, that you get basically nothing if you don’t pay, or that no one ever takes your word for anything if you don’t show off. Even though people who act their age might make fun of me, I’ve never gotten used to anything) heinz-rudolf kunze, Noch hab’ ich mich an nichts gewöhnt In a letter from October 1947, Adorno writes to his parents regarding his work on ‘a very long manuscript written in the Nietzschean aphoristic form, relating to a relatively wide range of philosophical objects, but above all the question of what has fundamentally become of “life” under the conditions of monopoly capitalism’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 905

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno refused to treat economic primacy as a static anthropological constant — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1178; Adorno refuses to reduce existing reality to mere positivity — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1487

Broader Connections

• Adorno refuses to reduce existing reality to mere positivity #corroborates (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1487
• Adorno refused to treat economic primacy as a static anthropological constant #corroborates (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1178