The individual, before it can determine itself, is determined by the relations in which it is enmeshed. “It is a fellow-being before it is a being.” - Russell Jacoby

Once upon a time leftists and radicals talked of liberation or the abolition of work. Now the talk is about full employment.

The inner connection between a positivism of numbers and quantities and one of human values and qualities is the excision of a critical distance and theory. Both surrender to different faces of reality—its facts or its ideology—and both stay clear and clean of antagonisms and contradictions.

In the name of a new theory past theory is declared honorable but feeble; one can lay aside Freud and Marx—or appreciate their limitations—and pick up the latest at the drive-in window of thought.