Editing Theodor W. Adorno (section)

===Marxist criticisms===
Adorno posits social totality as an automatic system.<ref>{{cite SEP |url-id=adorno |title=Theodor W. Adorno |last=Zuidervaart |first=Lambert}} (According to Adorno, society and culture form a social totality, such that the pursuit of freedom in society is inseparable from the pursuit of enlightenment in culture.)</ref> According to Horst Müller's ''Kritik der kritischen Theorie'' ("Critique of Critical Theory"), this assumption is consistent with Adorno's idea of society as a self-regulating system, from which one must escape (but from which nobody ''can'' escape). For him it was existent, but inhuman. Müller argues against the existence of such a system and claims that critical theory provides no practical solution for societal change. He concludes that [[Jürgen Habermas]], in particular, and the Frankfurt School in general, misconstrue Marx.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}}