Critique of political economy remains secretly oriented toward the very power concepts it opposes.

Evidence

Karl Kraus … made schematization look much too harmless by attempting on every occasion to revoke it as an error. But we have already reached a stage at which confronting the bourgeois ideal alone is no longer sufficient. In contrast with the critique of language, the critique of political economy was not satisfied with mere confrontation; it produced an antithesis. But even the critique of political economy is questionableand for the same reason. It, too, is secretly still oriented towards the concepts of power, order, planning and administration which appear plainly in Kraus. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2160

Categorization

• XREF: Prefigures Adorno’s ‘negative dialectics’ — the worry that any critique shares the conceptual apparatus of what it criticizes, echoed in the later ‘instrumental reason’ thesis. — connects to: The very composure of reflection secretly colludes with a world thought opposes. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 113; Political economy and cultural studies conceive of power in fundamentally different forms — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media: How Wall Street…, 29

Broader Connections

• The very composure of reflection secretly colludes with a world thought opposes. #corroborates (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 113
• Political economy and cultural studies conceive of power in fundamentally different forms #corroborates (0.72) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 29