[critical Social Science Attempts] To Determine When

Partisans Fight On Familiar Territory With Professed Political Objectives To Conquer Power. This Is What Distinguishes Them From Terrorists

Positivism Stands Or Falls With The Principle Of Scientism, That Is That The Meaning Of Knowledge Is Defined By What The Sciences Do And Can Thus Be Adequately Explicated Through The Methodological Analysis Of Scientific Procedures.

The Usage Of The Words "public" And "public Sphere" Betrays A Multiplicity Of Concurrent Meanings. Their Origins Go Back To Various Historical Phases And, When Applied Synchronically To The Conditions Of A Bourgeois Society That Is Industrially Advanced And Constituted As A Social-welfare State, They Fuse Into A Clouded Amalgam. Yet The Very Conditions That Make The Inherited Language Seem Inappropriate Appear To Require These Words, However Confused Their Employment.

The Speaker Must Choose A Comprehensible Expression So That Speaker And Hearer Can Understand One Another.

The Only Knowledge That Can Truly Orient Action Is Knowledge That Frees Itself From Mere Human Interests And Is Based In Ideas - In Other Words Knowledge That Has Taken A Theoretical Attitude.