The liquidation of independent enterprise destroyed the dignity of the bourgeois father

Evidence

The possibility of becoming a subject in the economy, an entrepreneur or a proprietor, has been completely liquidated. Right down to the humblest shop, the independent enterprise, on the management and inheritance of which the bourgeois family and the position of its head had rested, became hopelessly dependent. Everybody became an employee; and in this civilization of employees the dignity of the father (questionable anyhow) vanishes. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 116

Categorization

• XREF: Directly reaches backward to Burns and forward to The Namesake’s rendering of the immigrant father’s dignity; also echoes 2001’s critique of the atomic individual. — connects to: Decline of middle-class ownership eroded the family’s role and paternal authority — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 88
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Decline of middle-class ownership eroded the family’s role and paternal authority — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 88

Broader Connections

• Decline of middle-class ownership eroded the family’s role and paternal authority #expands (0.90) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 88