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This 1950 book, written by a Frankfurt school theorist, was mentioned as laying the foundation for the idea that only the political right had authoritarian personalities, based on what the speaker called flawed social science research.
This springs, we're gonna do a little bit of a history and political philosophy lesson here. This springs from a book from 1950 from a guy named Theodor Adorno. So Adorno was a Frankfurt school theori...
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Episode: Ep. 1176 - Joe Biden Isn’t Healing Anything
This 1950 book, written by a Frankfurt school theorist, was mentioned as laying the foundation for the idea that only the political right had authoritarian personalities, based on what the speaker called flawed social science research.
This springs, we're gonna do a little bit of a history and political philosophy lesson here. This springs from a book from 1950 from a guy named Theodor Adorno. So Adorno was a Frankfurt school theorist. [...] And in 1950, he put out a book called The Authoritarian Personality.
Now the book is deeply flawed. It is based on faulty social science research, but it makes the basic argument that there are people who are sort of proto-fascists and then America turns out these proto-fascists.