Domination Has Its Own Aesthetics, And Democratic

The Spontaneous Reproduction Of Superimposed Needs By The Individual Does Not Establish Autonomy; It Only Testifies To The Efficacy Of The Control.

There Is No Free Society Without Silence, Without The Internal And External Spaces Of Solitude In Which The Individual Freedom Can Develop.

Preaching Nonviolence On Principle Reproduces The Existing Institutionalized Violence.

If The Worker And His Boss Enjoy The Same Television Program And Visit The Same Resort Places, If The Typist Is As Attractively Made Up As The Daughter Of Her Employer, If The Negro Owns A Cadillac, If They All Read The Same Newspaper, Then This Assimilation Indicates Not The Disappearance Of Classes, But The Extent To Which The Needs And Satisfactions That Serve The Preservation Of The Establishment Are Shared By The Underlying Population.

The Intellectual Is Called On The Carpet... Don't You Conceal Something? You Talk A Language Which Is Suspect. You Don't Talk Like The Rest Of Us, Like The Man In The Street, But Rather Like A Foreigner Who Does Not Belong Here. We Have To Cut You Down To Size, Expose Your Tricks, Purge You.