Capitalism breaks with prior production yet continues domination over objects

Evidence

Although the capitalist mode of production represents a radical break with all previous relations of production, this mode of production itself ultimately remains within the continuity of subjects’ domination over objects. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1602

Categorization

• XREF: Contra the standard story of capitalism as decisive rupture; parallels Adorno/Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment thesis of domination’s continuity. — connects to: Monopoly capitalism destroys the very notion of property while retaining its form; Communist states replaced political coercion with technological domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 158; Domination in advanced capitalism is masked as neutral administration and objectivity — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 186 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist exchange abstracts objects from the real labor that produced them #expands (0.82) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 95
• Capitalist and formally pre-capitalist modes combine in structured dominance. #expands (0.80)