Just exchange is a precondition for overcoming injustice, not a future standard

Evidence

Just exchange, therefore, does not indicate a standard of action to be observed in the future. Rather, it names the precondition for the possibility of overcoming injustice and the compulsion of identity. Only simultaneously can the compulsive action and the principle on which it is based be superseded. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1571

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what Adorno means by ‘just exchange’ — a negative precondition for supersession rather than a positive normative ideal to implement.
• DEEPTHINKING: Key conceptual move: just exchange as the negation of the negation, the condition that must already hold for injustice to be overcome — central to the revisionist reading of Adorno’s political economy.
• XREF: connects to: Personal virtue cannot remedy injustice embedded in the situation itself — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1974; Closing the value gap is the precondition for overcoming racism, materialism, and militarism — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 561

Broader Connections

• Personal virtue cannot remedy injustice embedded in the situation itself #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1974
• Closing the value gap is the precondition for overcoming racism, materialism, and militarism #corroborates (0.80) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 561