Disagreement with Pollock forced Adorno to retain economic critique

Evidence

If Adorno had agreed with Pollock’s thesis that state capitalism had overcome monopoly capitalism, he no longer would have had to (or have been able to) pursue the critique of economy for the sake of social critique. Instead, he could have focused solely on a critique of hierarchised administrative hell – a critique expressed extensively throughout his and Horkheimer’s work by the concept of the ‘administered world’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 586

Categorization

• XREF: This causal fork connects to the book’s stated purpose of countering the ‘pessimistic cul-de-sac’ reading — the ‘administered world’ pessimistic reading is explicitly conditional on accepting Pollock’s state-capitalism thesis. — connects to: Adorno’s diagnosis of Kafka leads him to reject Pollock’s state capitalism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 584; Adorno’s critique targets economy-in-general as universal rationality, not just capitalism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1605; Adorno openly admitted the aporia of strictly adhering to versus weakening economic categories — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 899 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno openly admitted the aporia of strictly adhering to versus weakening economic categories #expands (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 899
• Adorno’s critique targets economy-in-general as universal rationality, not just capitalism #complicates (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1605
• Adorno made instrumental reason a transhistoric urge rather than a capitalist product #complicates (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 380