That Which Is Cannot Be True.

The Truth Of Art Lies In Its Power To Break The Monopoly Of Established Reality To Define What Is Real.

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).

This (functional - E.w.) Language Controls By Reducing The Linguistic Forms And Symbols Of Reflection, Abstraction, Development, Contradiction; By Substituting Images For Concepts. It Denies Or Absorbs The Transcendent Vocabulary; It Does Not Search For But Establishes And Imposes Truth And Falsehood.

Hypostatized Into A Ritual Pattern, Marxian Theory Becomes Ideology. But Its Content And Function Distinguish It From Classical Forms Of Ideology; It Is Not False Consciousness, But A Rather Consciousness Of Falsehood, A Falsehood Which Is Corrected In The Context Of The Higher Truth Represented By The Objective Historical Interest.

One Will Only Be Free When One Plays And One's Society Will Become A Piece Of Art.