Adorno rejected the deferral of socialism to a future state as bourgeois thinking

Evidence

If there is something bourgeois and anti-dialectical, it is the belief in an only-afterwards-relation in essential matters. The banal thought comes to one’s mind that humanity ‘is not yet mature [enough] for socialism’. … The thinking of the classless society has to shake off the logic of this onlyafterwards, the embodiment of sanity and reason and human’s notion of time, or it remains in a bad sense traditionalistic. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1510

Categorization

• XREF: Central evidence against the pessimism reading; Adorno’s critique of ‘not yet’ maturation as traditionalist echoes the simultaneity implicit in his utopian thought. — connects to: Frankfurt theorists rejected socialism as a necessary outgrowth of capitalism. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 294; Adorno rejected party-mediated revolutionary theory as doomed to capture or reformism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1096; Marcuse rejected gradualist two-phase Marxism for a leap directly into socialism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1676
• SEED: This is exactly the quote for an essay rehabilitating Adorno as a philosopher of the present-imminent rather than forever-deferred.