Exchange of labor-power injects novelty into circulation while system stasis persists

Evidence

Through the ‘unjust’ exchange of labour-power for wages – that is, where production and circulation come into contact, where ‘exchange is by no means pure circulation anymore’ and ‘the sphere of production itself is already competition or circulation’ – labour puts something new into circulation, while the stasis of the system is guaranteed by its perpetual internal dynamics. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1553

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Marx’s chapters on circulation of capital and to the debate on Adorno’s relationship to the critique of political economy proper. — connects to: Commodity exchange reduces difference to identity through endless novelty — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 548; Industrial society is static while appearing dynamic — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 144; Cultural stasis is constant novelty without ordered sequential change — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 18 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Cultural stasis is constant novelty without ordered sequential change #qualifies (0.82) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 18
• A social order persists until new productive relations mature within it #complicates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1539