Hypostatized Into A Ritual Pattern, Marxian Theory

The Range Of Socially Permissible And Desirable Satisfaction Is Greatly Enlarged, But Through This Satisfaction, The Pleasure Principle Is Reduced Deprived Of The Claims Which Are Irreconcilable With The Established Society. Pleasure, Thus Adjusted, Generates Submission.

Dialectical Logic Undoes The Abstractions Of Formal Logic And Of Transcendental Philosophy, But It Also Denies The Concreteness Of Immediate Experience. To The Extent To Which This Experience Comes To Rest With The Things As They Appear And Happen To Be, It Is A Limited And Even False Experience. It Attains Its Truth If It Has Freed Itself From The Deceptive Objectivity Which Conceals The Factors Behind The Facts - That Is, If It Understands Its World As A Historical Universe, In Which The Established Facts Are The Work Of The Historical Practice Of Man.

When The Whole Is At Stake, There Is No Crime Except That Of Rejecting The Whole, Or Not Defending It. ... Those Who Identify Themselves With The Whole, Who Are Installed As The Leaders And Defenders Of The Whole Can Make Mistakes, But They Cannot Do Wrong - They Are Not Guilty. They May Become Guilty Again When This Identification No Longer Holds, When They Are Gone.

To The Degree To Which They Correspond To The Given Reality, Thought And Behavior Express A False Consciousness, Responding To And Contributing To The Preservation Of A False Order Of Facts. And This False Consciousness Has Become Embodied In The Prevailing Technical Apparatus Which In Turn Reproduces It.

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.