Young Habermas asked only for enriched work tasks, not critique of capitalism

Evidence

However, the goal the young Habermas set for developments in the field of production, which he described using Schelsky’s concept retrograde processes', was a modest one. What he demanded for workers was that they should be given purposeful tasks with limited responsibility, demanding full initiative’. His goal was not the critique of a society in which practically all products took the form of commodities produced by a commodity known as labour-power, namely capitalist society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2310

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Habermas read Marx as a theory of reification, not a critique of capitalism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2301; Habermas sought de-alienated labor while conservative theorists sought mass habituation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2309

Broader Connections

• Habermas sought de-alienated labor while conservative theorists sought mass habituation #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2309