Domination was always latent within political economy’s own categories

Evidence

Domination was always contained within political economy. The sale of the commodity of labour-power, from which Marx deduces the classrelation, actually presupposes the class-relation as compulsion to sell labour-power. Thus, no longer is domination unexplainable due to its abstractness; rather, it is the form assumed by economic reason long corroded by irrationality. … As a consequence, it would seem that categories of political economy such as surplus-value, pauperisation and even class must be redefined. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 895

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that domination is the form assumed by economic reason ‘long corroded by irrationality’ — and that even surplus-value and class must be redefined — is dense enough to sit with for days.
• XREF: Aligns with the volume’s core thesis that Adorno’s critique of political economy revises rather than abandons Marxian categories — counters the conventional reading of Adorno as drifting into abstract domination-talk. — connects to: Marx always treated economics as political economy and human interaction — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 490; Critique of political economy becomes the critique of all history as domination — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 697; Overcoming capitalism alone would not prevent new forms of domination — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1568 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Domination in advanced capitalism is masked as neutral administration and objectivity #expands (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 186
• Overcoming capitalism alone would not prevent new forms of domination #corroborates (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1568
• Reason itself becomes an instrument of domination in late industrial society #expands (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 34