Economic primacy over society presupposes a fully consolidated exchange economy

Evidence

In order to be able to speak of a primacy of economy over society at all, it has to be assumed that society not only represents the totality of the relationships between human beings and their institutions, but that the economy forms a unity consolidated as a whole in its own right. This is at least the case in a fully developed exchange economy. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1179

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fixes the conceptual precondition for any primacy claim — economy as a self-consolidated totality only holds under developed exchange.
• XREF: connects to: The economy’s weight relative to society varies historically rather than ontologically — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1176; Exchange becomes totalized across society by encroaching on production — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1376; Self-sustaining household economies are not exchange or profit-driven economies — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1146

Broader Connections

• Exchange becomes totalized across society by encroaching on production #expands (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1376
• Self-sustaining household economies are not exchange or profit-driven economies #qualifies (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1146