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Towards a New Manifesto

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By Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.

“We cannot call for the defence of the Western world.”

In 1956, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer sat down to write an updated version of the Communist Manifesto. These are previously unpublished notes from their discussions.

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“Not only are the hit songs, stars, and soap operas cyclically recurrent and rigidly invariable types, but the specific content of the entertainment itself is derived from them and only appears to change. The details are interchangeable.”
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Adorno & Horkheimer (The Culture Industry: Elightenment as mass deception) (via withabang)