The Criterion For Free Choice

This Mutual Dependencies No Longer The Dialectical Relationship Between Master And Servant, Which Has Been Broken In The Struggle For Mutual Recognition, But Rather A Vicious Circle Which Encloses Both The Master And The Servant. Do The Technicians Rule, Or Is Their Rule That Of The Others, Who Rely On The Technicians As Their Planners And Executors?

The Music Of The Soul Is Also The Music Of Salesmanship. Exchange Value, Not Truth Value Counts. On It Centers The Rationality Of The Status Quo, And All Alien Rationality Is Bent To It.

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.

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.

Glorification Of The 'natural' Is Part Of The Ideology Which Protects An Unnatural Society In Its Struggle Against Liberation.