The Societal Division Of Labor Obtains The

Dialectical Thought Understands The Critical Tension Between "is" And "ought" First As An Ontological Condition, Pertaining To The Structure Of Being Itself. However, The Recognition Of This State Of Being Its Theory Intends From The Beginning A Concrete Practice. Seen In The Light Of A Truth Which Appears In Them Falsified Or Denied, The Given Facts Themselves Appear False And Negative.

In Its Relation To The Reality Of Daily Life, The High Culture Of The Past Was Many Things Opposition And Adornment, Outcry And Resignation. But It Was Also The Appearance Of The Realm Of Freedom: The Refusal To Behave.

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.

In The Realm Of Culture, The New Totalitarianism Manifests Itself Precisely In A Harmonizing Pluralism, Where The Most Contradictory Works And Truths Peacefully Coexist In Indifference.

By Virtue Of The Way It Has Organized Its Technological Base, Contemporary Industrial Society Tends To Be Totalitarian. For "totalitarian" Is Not Only A Terroristic Political Coordination Of Society, But Also A Non-terroristic Economic-technical Coordination Which Operates Through The Manipulation Of Needs By Vested Interests.