An examination of Theodor Adorno's essay # 90 in Minima Moralia.

On Adorno, Minima Moralia, essay # 90 Capitalism, by the time Thedor Adorno wrote Minima Moralia, had grown in influence and power to proportions unimaginable by even Marx. Adorno wished to demonstrate the omnipresence of Capitalism; its infiltration into private and public life. Adorno argues that every action performed by man has, reflected in it, the Capitalist state. In essay # 90 of Minima Moralia, entitled "Institution for deaf-mutes" Adorno uses speech as an example of the inescapable influence …

…the standpoint of a redeemed state, one is able to examine the remnants of Capitalism in everyday life; aspects of speech otherwise considered 'common sense.' This 'redemption' serves as negation, it poses itself as only a possibility so that what actually exists may not be accepted as the true end. By examining human speech from the eye of a world beyond Capitalist influence, one is finally able to recognize that very influence within speech.