Multiculturalism is not the opposite of assimilation, but its product. - Russell Jacoby

Multiculturalism relies on an intellectual rout, the refusal or inability to address what makes up a culture.

The laws of social development are not identical with the laws in the natural sciences. The content of the social laws is not nature but second nature: coagulated history. They are manmade, but they also make men; they are dialectical, at once subject and object.

No matter how heretical the neo- and post-Freudians imagined they were in theorizing about the “values,” “insecurities,” “goals” of the individual, they were safely following the official ideology of the private and autonomous individual and consumer.