"The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever-greater obstacles in the way of co-operation among human beings. A system which in every act of its life sacrifices the welfare of large sections of the people, of whole nations. to the selfish lust for power and the economic interests of small minorities must necessarily dissolve the social ties and lead to a constant war of each against all. This system has merely been the pacemaker for the great intellectual and social reaction which finds its expression today in modern Fascism and the idea of the totalitarian state."
— Rudolph Rocker, Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism
A while back I quoted Herbert Marcuse positing:
Marcuse goes on to say:“In the medium of technology, culture, politics, and the economy merge into an omnipresent system which swallows up or repulses all alternatives. The productivity and growth potential of this system stabilize the society and contain technical progress within the framework of domination. Technological rationality has become political rationality.”
The following images more than amply illustrate the principle of “what the Technocrats need (the ‘capitalist class’… for their personal profit) becomes what YOU (the proletariat) “need”. Because they will arrange it so YOU HAVE NO CHOICE, and they KNOW what they’re doing, and they do NOT give a fuck what YOU want (
see the L.A. Street Car system destruction by the automobile companies for another example.)
The Herbert Marcuse Official Home Page has full texts of his works and essays
