Metacritique of Non-Criticism

Critical Theory's relation to Left social movements has been ambiguous from the very beginning. The original disenchantment with socialism was extended to the whole Enlightenment project. Its objective was to understand the relation of reason and regression in modernity; the fetish of scientific means over rational ends to satisfy human needs by eradicating all humanity; and the culture industry as extending on all levels the logic of existing socio-economic relations. Consequently, the idea of spontaneous social movements, unmediated by the totally administered society, is at once suspect of an unreflective nostalgia for an idealized earlier social formation long since gone in the age of mechanical reproduction

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