Overcoming capitalism alone would not prevent new forms of domination

Evidence

Even if capitalism were overcome and the forces of production liberated, this would not suffice to reconcile society, that is, to reconcile the contradiction between the universal and particular. The material sustenance of all would not preclude a new form of domination, nor would it alone be the guarantor of a ‘happiness of mankind that would be the happiness of individuals’. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1568

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to critiques of ‘transition to socialism’ as itself a site of potential new domination — relevant to debates over state socialism and to We (Zamyatin)‘s dystopian state. — connects to: Self-determination cannot precede the abolition of exploitation — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 227; Liberated society still needs centralized technical control over vital goods — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 872; Lenin wrongly treated capitalist technical rationality as separable from class domination — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 521 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Alternatives failing to address structures of domination cannot achieve abolition #corroborates (0.88) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 286
• Capitalism breaks with prior production yet continues domination over objects #corroborates (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1602
• Hegemony is not the same thing as ideological domination #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 755
• Cultural domination has real effects without being all-powerful or all-inclusive #expands (0.75)