Adorno's essays were not so much a Marxist defence of modernism as the expression of a distinctively modernist Marxism: his positions were, mutatis mutandis, those of modernist ideology itself

Kafka is attacked by Lukács for the qualities which, mutatis mutandis, in the history of music, would have made him in Adorno's terms a "progressive"

Mutatis mutandis, the same holds for violence.