Joel Kovel on the Frankfurt School

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Dennis R. writes of Adorno:
>he constantly
>ferrets out the non-identical or dialectical aspect of cultural works,
>concepts, thought-systems etc., i.e. *thinks through* the contradiction,
>instead of naively abolishing such. Adorno's point is that the
>working-class is, in capitalist society, an *object* of domination, and
>not a subject.

Isn't there a problem here for you, Dennis? Adorno can 'ferrets out the
non-identical or dialectical aspect of cultural works, concepts,
thought-systems, etc.' but can't think of the working class as both an
object of domination and a subject of a future dissolution of capitalism
which causes domination. Dialectics in culture but not in social relations
for Adorno?

Yoshie