Marxism’s universal-identification assumes past suffering gets redeemed in the future

Evidence

The identification with the universal enters deeply into the fibre of Marxism notwithstanding the much cruder epistemological positions of Marx and the Marxists. For there you find something like the belief that, when ultimatelytheuniversaltakesoverandtheconceptisvictorious,individualswillindeedcomeintotheirown–andthisfactorwillensurethatallthe suffering and the wasted individuality of history will somehow be made good. This is an issue that to the best of my knowledge was first commented on critically by Ivan Turgenev in the nineteenth century. Turgenev maintained that even the prospect of a completely classless society could not console him for the fate of all those who had suffered to no purpose and had fallen by the wayside. … For reconciliation to succeed, it would need to embrace the unreconciled dead. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1532

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘unreconciled dead’ echoes Benjamin’s angel of history and the Theses on the Philosophy of History; also connects to Adorno on the wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing Adorno’s actual engagement with Turgenev — is this from Fathers and Sons or a different text?