Marx maintains inequality and unfreedom are inherent realizations of exchange-based freedom.

Evidence

According to Marx, here it is revealed ‘that exchange-value or, more precisely, the money system is in fact the system of equality and freedom, and that the disturbances which they encounter in the further development of the system are disturbances inherent in it, are merely the realization of equality and freedom, which prove to be inequality and unfreedom’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 804

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the precise Marxian sense in which freedom/equality ‘realize’ as inequality/unfreedom — a definitional keystone for the whole debate.
• XREF: connects to: Marx saw market freedom and equality as real yet turning into their opposites — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 572; Capitalist-worker exchange is formally equal but substantively unequal — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1365; Critical Theory’s freedom consists in accepting bourgeois ideals in their distorted or manipulated forms. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2341 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Marx saw market freedom and equality as real yet turning into their opposites #corroborates (0.95) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 572
• Capitalist-worker exchange is formally equal but substantively unequal #exemplifies (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1365