Thought That Accepts Reality As

If Man Has Learned To See And Know What Really Is, He Will Act In Accordance With Truth, Epistemology Is In Itself Ethics, And Ethics Is Epistemology.

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.

This (functional - E.w.) Language Controls By Reducing The Linguistic Forms And Symbols Of Reflection, Abstraction, Development, Contradiction; By Substituting Images For Concepts. It Denies Or Absorbs The Transcendent Vocabulary; It Does Not Search For But Establishes And Imposes Truth And Falsehood.

The Way In Which A Society Organizes The Life Of Its Members ... Is One "project" Of Realization Among Others. But Once The Project Has Become Operative In The Basic Institutions And Relations, It Tends To Become Exclusive And To Determine The Development Of The Society As A Whole.

One-dimensional Thought Is Systematically Promoted By The Makers Of Politics And Their Purveyors Of Mass Information. Their Universe Of Discourse Is Populated By Self-validating Hypotheses Which, Incessantly And Monopolistically Repeated, Become Hyponotic Definitions Of Dictations.