Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (;Oxford Dictionary of English ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher, composer, and music theorist. 

He designed the F-scale with other researchers at the University of California. This scale tried to measure "the authoritarian personality". F stands for Fascist. He wrote about this in the 1950 book The Authoritarian Personality.  He was a Marxist.

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