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Abstract

It is controversial whether Adorno remained an anti-capitalist theorist in his later work. Part of the literature claims that he shifted from being a critic of political economy to being a critic of the domination of nature, and thereby ceased to criticize capitalism to criticize civilization, another argues that his late work continues to target capitalism, and must be understood as an effort to some extent revolutionary to overcome this mode of production, as usual in different Marxisms. This paper seeks to develop an alternative interpretation, according to which Adorno remains an anti-capitalist, but which breaks with traditional Marxism, both because of his way of reading the late Marxian work (which comes very close to New Marx Reading) and because of his diagnosis, centered on the blockade of emancipation processes due to the integration of the proletariat and the intensification of domination through the cultural industry and of the concentration of power.