"solidarity is sick" (Adorno)

[Rakesh Bhandari]

Forgive me for not understanding Adorno.

The first excerpt explores the sickness of the kind of solidarity demanded
by Parties, though one wonders whether Adorno is not writing a critique of
any large scale, organised attempt at political change.

The second excerpt seems to suggest that savages, a term used without any
caution as it seems to be applied to anyone who hails from  outside Central
Europe, are not noble because they are the leading candidates to give
positivism and modernisation a second life. There is no recognition of the
role positivism may play and has played in combatting religious reaction or
obscurantism; one should also be forgiven for not being easily won over to
Adorno's own critique of positivism. Or am I just so in awe of The
Tradition that I refuse to understand his profundity?    Moreover, isn't it
strange for someone so inspired by Benjamin to read history against the
grain and to find insight in the fragments cast off by the Dialectics of
History and Progress seems to find nothing of value in those "petty
bourgeois" studies of non capitalist or primitive or non-white music or
art?

yours, rakesh

ps max, thanks for the reply; I'll be off email for the next day or so, but
I'll think about your important objections.