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"But they also testify to the ambivalent rationality of progress, which is satisfying in its repressive power, and repressive in its satisfactions."
Herbert Marcuse, "One-Dimensional Man"
On the validation of democracy:
"Committed to this framework, the investigation becomes circular and self-validating. If 'democratic' is defined in the limiting but realistic terms of the actual process of election, then this process is democratic prior to the results of the investigation."
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On the 1952 presidential election in the United States:
"[...] it cannot raise the decisive question whether the consent itself was not the work of manipulation---a question for which the actual state of affairs provides ample justification. The analysis cannot raise it because it would transcend its terms toward transitive meaning---toward a concept of democracy which would reveal the democratic election as a rather limited democratic process."