At The Highest Stage Of Capitalism, The

Inasmuch As Art Preserves, With The Promise Of Happiness, The Memory Of The Goal That Failed, It Can Enter, As A 'regulative Idea,' The Desperate Struggle For Changing The World. Against All Fetishism Of The Productive Forces, Against The Continued Enslavement Of Individuals By The Objective Conditions (which Remain Those Of Domination), Art Represents The Ultimate Goal Of All Revolutions: The Freedom And Happiness Of The Individual.

The Society Which Projects And Undertakes The Technological Transformation Of Nature Alters The Base Of Domination By Gradually Replacing Personal Dependence (of The Slave On The Master, The Serf On The Lord Of The Manor, The Lord On The Donor Of The Fief, Etc.) With Dependence On The "objective Order Of Things" (on Economic Laws, The Market Etc.).

In The Realm Of Culture, The New Totalitarianism Manifests Itself Precisely In A Harmonizing Pluralism, Where The Most Contradictory Works And Truths Peacefully Coexist In Indifference.

A Work Of Art Can Be Called Revolutionary If, By Virtue Of The Aesthetic Transformation, It Represents, In The Exemplary Fate Of Individuals, The Prevailing Unfreedom And The Rebelling Forces, Thus Breaking Through The Mystified (and Petrified) Social Reality, And Opening The Horizon Of Change (liberation).

If Man Has Learned To See And Know What Really Is, He Will Act In Accordance With Truth, Epistemology Is In Itself Ethics, And Ethics Is Epistemology.