Use-value and exchange-value can only be superseded together, never separately

Evidence

Use-value as well is simultaneously an abstraction of a commodity …. The entire dichotomous concept should be abolished for the benefit of something which can only be created in the process of abolition. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1281

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Clarifies the fetishism concept: the use-value/exchange-value dichotomy must be abolished jointly for Adorno.
  • XREF: connects to: A just exchange of equivalents would abolish the exchange category itself — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1556; Use-value is a purely formal, historically produced concept within political economy — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1285

Broader Connections