Society ... Can Afford To

Inasmuch As Art Preserves, With The Promise Of Happiness, The Memory Of The Goal That Failed, It Can Enter, As A 'regulative Idea,' The Desperate Struggle For Changing The World. Against All Fetishism Of The Productive Forces, Against The Continued Enslavement Of Individuals By The Objective Conditions (which Remain Those Of Domination), Art Represents The Ultimate Goal Of All Revolutions: The Freedom And Happiness Of The Individual.

Thought That Accepts Reality As Given Is No Thought At All.

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

The Capabilities (intellectual And Material) Of Contemporary Society Are Immeasurably Greater Than Ever Before - Which Means That The Scope Of Society's Domination Over The Individual Is Immeasurably Greater Than Ever Before. Our Society Distinguishes Itself By Conquering The Centrifugal Social Forces With Technology Rather Than Terror, On The Dual Basis Of An Overwhelming Efficiency And An Increasing Standard Of Living.

Bourgeois Political Economy ... Never Gets To See Man Who Is Its Real Subject. It Disregards The Essence Of Man And His History And Is Thus In The Profoundest Sense Not A 'science Of People' But Of Non-people And Of An Inhuman World Of Objects And Commodities.