The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.