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The People Are Led To Find In The Productive Apparatus The Effective Agent Of Thought And Action To Which Their Personal Thought And Action Can And Must Be Surrendered. And In This Transfer, The Apparatus Also Assumes The Role Of A Moral Agent. Conscience Is Absolved By Reification.

Many, And I Think The Determining, Constitutive Facts Remain Outside The Reach Of The Operational Concept. And By Virtue Of This Limitation This Methodological Injunction Against Transitive Concepts Which Might Show The Facts In Their True Light And Call Them By Their True Name The Descriptive Analysis Of The Facts Blocks The Apprehension Of Facts And Becomes An Element Of The Ideology That Sustains The Facts. Proclaiming The Existing Social Reality As Its Own Norm, This Sociology Fortifies In The Individuals The "faithless Faith" In The Reality Whose Victims They Are.

The Strains And Stresses Suffered By The Individual In Society Are Grounded In The Normal Functioning Of That Society (and Of The Individual!) Rather Than In Its Disturbances And Diseases.

The Range Of Choice Open To The Individual Is Not The Decisive Factor In Determining The Degree Of Human Freedom, But What Can Be Chosen And What Is Chosen By The Individual.

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.