The Division of Labour, Revisited

[kenneth.mackendrick]

> KEN:
> The division of labour is a thief.
> It robs us of our freedom and plunders our happiness.
> 
> da da da...
> 
> T. ADORNO:
> "One can say much against the division of labor, but, as is 
well known, even Marx, who vehementlyl attacked it in his 
youth, later declared that without the division of labor nothing 
would work."

But adorno also knew that the moment to realize a world 
without the division of labour was missed, so we, of the 
divided labour, are obliged ruthlessly to criticize it from within.
ken