Marx criticized bourgeois society immanently by using its own claims against it

Evidence

This is the decisive turn in Marx’s work – that unlike some primitive socialist or primitive anarchist who opposes bourgeois society, he doesn’t simply claim: this is all untrue. Rather, he claims: in order to be able to transform this tremendous apparatus in the first place, we want to use its own power to set it in motion. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1435

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the core move of Marx’s immanent critique of political economy: using the opponent’s own power against it, per Hegel’s dialectics.
• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s stated purpose of countering the ‘pessimistic cul-de-sac’ reading of Adorno; immanent critique is the methodological heart of both. — connects to: Marx’s critique of representation leaves representation’s own claims unquestioned — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 97; Marx’s own ‘transparent reality’ critique is itself a representation; Wright saw Marxism as an internal critique trapped in bourgeois epistemological terms (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Marx’s critique of representation leaves representation’s own claims unquestioned #complicates (0.85) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 97
• Wright saw Marxism as an internal critique trapped in bourgeois epistemological terms #corroborates (0.85)
• Marx’s own ‘transparent reality’ critique is itself a representation #complicates (0.80)
• Adorno’s criticisms of Benjamin’s Marxism reveal his own conception of Marxian critique #expands (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 221
• Marx titled all his economic writings a critique of political economy #exemplifies (0.75)