Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing unfreedom and the rebelling forces, thus breaking through the mystified (and petrified) social reality, and opening the horizon of change (liberation).

Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.

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.

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.