History’s absolute object can become its first conscious subject

Evidence

Yet this theory, which wants to help transcend what exists, contains the same dialectic recognised by Adorno in Minima Moralia as existing within Marxian theory, namely the dialectic which maintains ‘that the proletariat as the absolute object of history is capable of becoming its first social subject, and realizing the conscious self-determination of mankind’: Negative philosophy, dissolving everything, dissolves even the dissolvent. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1059

Categorization

• XREF: The object-to-subject reversal connects to the reader’s revising of Adorno’s relation to Marxian political economy; echoes the ‘ant colony’ reversal of the prior paragraph.