Exchange society is immanently critical because equivalence contradicts itself

Evidence

His point, rather, is that the ‘concept of the exchange society … should be seen as an immanently critical concept’. Exchange, in whose concept ‘the principle of equivalence is co-posited’, can systematically correspond neither to the concept of equivalence, nor therefore to its own. The exchange of equivalents is not actually an exchange of equivalents, but rather an ‘ideological illusion’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1382

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Adorno’s ‘immanently critical concept’ of exchange society: the concept of equivalence is co-posited in exchange, yet exchange systematically fails to correspond to it.
• XREF: connects to: Capitalist-worker exchange is formally equal but substantively unequal — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1365; Fulfilling the concept of free exchange reveals it as its own opposite — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1601; A just exchange of equivalents would abolish the exchange category itself — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1556 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Fulfilling the concept of free exchange reveals it as its own opposite #expands (0.92) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1601
• A just exchange of equivalents would abolish the exchange category itself #corroborates (0.90) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1556
• Abolition of equivalent exchange is its fulfillment, not its negation #corroborates (0.88) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1554
• Production and exchange form a unity of the diverse, not an identical unity #expands (0.72)
• Individuality paradoxically emerges through the exchange process that levels it. #expands (0.72) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1250
• Market ideology conceals exploitation by making exchange stand in for production #expands (0.70)