Missed revolutionary moments leave only false immediacy or infinite deferral as options

Evidence

Where the ‘moment to realise’ philosophy – a moment ‘at which, as Adorno suspected, liberation was once possible’ – is missed, yet no new possibility to realise philosophy is visible even from afar, there exists either a practice which acts as though the revolution were immediately pending, as though revolution were now only that ‘litany of the unmediated unity of theory and practice’ which Adorno sees at work in Soviet Marxism, or as though it were ‘infinitely delayed’. After all, ‘[t]heory cannot prolong the moment its critique depended on’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1198

Categorization

• QUESTION: The dichotomy posed here — either act as if revolution is imminently pending or treat it as infinitely delayed — invites asking what third option Adorno himself actually pursues, since this passage frames both poles negatively.
• XREF: connects to: Failed revolutions still permanently altered everyday expectations — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 486; Revolution may not even exist as a spectre anymore — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 485; Revolutionary moments compress history so improvisation outweighs long-term structures — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 55