One Will Only Be Free When One

The Philosopher ... Subjects Experience To His Critical Judgment, And This Contains A Value Judgment Namely, That Freedom From Toil Is Preferable To Toil, And An Intelligent Life Is Preferable To A Stupid Life. It So Happened That Philosophy Was Born With These Values. Scientific Thought Had To Break This Union Of Value Judgment And Analysis, For It Became Increasingly Clear That The Philosophic Values Did Not Guide The Organisation Of Society.

Free Election Of Masters Does Not Abolish The Masters Or The Slaves.

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.

If The Worker And His Boss Enjoy The Same Television Program And Visit The Same Resort Places, If The Typist Is As Attractively Made Up As The Daughter Of Her Employer, If The Negro Owns A Cadillac, If They All Read The Same Newspaper, Then This Assimilation Indicates Not The Disappearance Of Classes, But The Extent To Which The Needs And Satisfactions That Serve The Preservation Of The Establishment Are Shared By The Underlying Population.

Ideas, Aspirations, And Objectives That, By Their Content, Transcend The Established Universe Of Discourse And Action Are Either Repelled Or Reduced To Terms Of This Universe.