The economy has become synonymous with all social life including self-relations

Evidence

If the economy was once a means to the end of social reproduction, the two are one and the same today. By now, members of society are members of an economy which is synonymous with everything, even with the relationships of individuals to themselves and others. Hence, as mentioned above, friendliness exists under ‘a priori saleability’, where ‘the living has made itself, as something living, a thing, equipment’. ‘[F]rom genuine kindness to the hysterical fit of rage’, everything previously alive has become ‘capable of manipulation’ in order that that the gift which has nothing to do with own concept – something freely given with nothing gained in return (as Nietzsche claims, ‘we acquire no rights by making gifts’39) – will yield the return already implied in its giving. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 937

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Adorno’s wider thesis in Minima Moralia that capital totalizes subjectivity — and to the reader’s project of linking Adorno to the critique of political economy. — connects to: Economism reduces all social relations to direct economic determination — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 90; Capitalism becomes a whole form of social life through the superstructures, not just production. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 526; An ideology in its highest sense is a world-conception permeating all social life — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1186 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Economism reduces all social relations to direct economic determination #expands (0.88) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 90
• Capitalism becomes a whole form of social life through the superstructures, not just production. #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 526
• An ideology in its highest sense is a world-conception permeating all social life #corroborates (0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1186
• The economy’s weight relative to society varies historically rather than ontologically #qualifies (0.78) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1176
• Working class people derive self-worth from their resilience through economic hardship #exemplifies (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2189