Adorno justified abstaining from political advice by citing the division of labor

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If I were to give practical advice in the way that Herbert Marcuse has to a certain extent done, it would be at the cost of my own productivity. One can say much against the division of labour, but, as is well known, even Marx, who vehemently attacked it in his youth, later declared that without the division of labour nothing would work. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2626