Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life
by Adorno, Theodor (1991)
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Long ago it was shown that wage-labor formed the modern masses, and indeed has produced the workers themselves. The individual [Individuum] is universal not merely as the biological substrate, but simultaneously as the form of reflection of the social process, and its consciousness of himself as something in-itself is the illusion needed to raise his level of performance, whereas in fact the individuated function in the modem economy as mere agents of the law of value.
(p.228)
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