> I have long been skeptical of Frankfurtian-type claims that Marx's
> discourse is riddled w/instrumental-rationalism or Prometheanism, or
> that there is some fundamental break between an early humanist Marx
> and a late "economistic" Marx.
This may be Habermas' position, but Adorno makes it absolutely clear that Marx was critiquing the economic laws of capital, not defending such as the key to human happiness. Just as Marx was far more Marxist than most of his followers realized, so too were the Frankfurters far more Marxist than their self-proclaimed followers.
-- Dennis