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Max Horkheimer on Work

1895–1973 Germany

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Answers determined by the social division of labor become truth as such.

Eclipse of Reason (1947)

Technology ... aims to produce neither concepts nor images, nor the joy of understanding, but method, exploitation of the labor of others, capital.

The more heavily the process of self-preservation is based on the bourgeois Division of labor, the more it enforces the self-alienation of individuals, who must mold themselves to the technical apparatus body and soul.

and Theodor Adorno (1948)

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