The Range Of Socially Permissible And Desirable

Technical Progress And More Comfortable Living Permit The Systematic Inclusion Of Libidinal Components Into The Realm Of Commodity Production And Exchange. But No Matter How Controlled The Mobilization Of Instinctual Energy May Be (it Sometimes Amounts To A Scientific Management Of Libido), No Matter How Much It May Serve As A Prop For The Status Quo - It Is Also Gratifying To The Managed Individuals, Just As Racing The Outboard Motor, Pushing The Power Lawn Mower, And Speeding The Automobile Are Fun.

The Societal Division Of Labor Obtains The Dignity Of An Ontological Condition.

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.

Nobody Really Thinks Who Does Not Abstract From That Which Is Given, Who Does Not Relate The Facts To The Factors Which Have Made Them, Who Does Not - In His Mind - Undo The Facts. Abstractness Is The Very Life Of Thought, The Token Of Its Authenticity.

At The Highest Stage Of Capitalism, The Most Necessary Revolution Appears As The Most Unlikely One.