Hypostatized Into A Ritual Pattern, Marxian Theory

The People Are Led To Find In The Productive Apparatus The Effective Agent Of Thought And Action To Which Their Personal Thought And Action Can And Must Be Surrendered. And In This Transfer, The Apparatus Also Assumes The Role Of A Moral Agent. Conscience Is Absolved By Reification.

The Neo-conservative Critics Of Leftist Critics Of Mass Culture Ridicule The Protest Against Bach As Background Music In The Kitchen, Against Plato And Hegel, Shelley And Baudelaire, Marx And Freud In The Drugstore. Instead, They Insist On Recognition Of The Fact That The Classics Have Left The Mausoleum And Come To Life Again, That People Are Just So Much More Educated. True, But Coming To Life As Classics, They Come To Life As Other Than Themselves; They Are Deprived Of Their Antagonistic Force, Of The Estrangement Which Was The Very Dimension Of Their Truth.

This Society Turns Everything It Touches Into A Potential Source Of Progress And Exploitation, Of Drudgery And Satisfaction, Of Freedom And Of Oppression.

At The Classical Origins Of Philosophic Thought, The Transcending Concepts Remained Committed To The Prevailing Separation Between Intellectual And Manual Labor To The Established Society Of Enslavement. ... Those Who Bore The Brunt Of The Untrue Reality And Who, Therefore, Seemed To Be Most In Need Of Attaining Its Subversion Were Not The Concern Of Philosophy. It Abstracted From Them And Continued To Abstract From Them.

The Present Stage Redefines The Possibilities Of Man And Nature In Accordance With The New Means Available For Their Realization.