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Friedrich Pollock Is a Crucial Guide to the Rise of Automation
The German social theorist Friedrich Pollock belonged to a brilliant cohort of left-wing intellectuals that came together around the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research (IfS), better known as the Frankfurt School, which marks its centenary this year. He played a key role in the institute’s activity both in Germany and the United States over the…