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the alleged results of astrological reasoning

[...] The type of people we are concerned with take astrology for granted, much like psychiatry, symphony concerts or political parties; they accept it because it exists, without much reflection, provided only that their own psychological demands somehow correspond to the offer. They are hardly i…

—p.49 The Stars Down to Earth The Stars Down to Earth: The Los Angeles Times Astrology Column (46) by Theodor W. Adorno
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the occult appears rather institutionalized

[...] the occult appears rather institutionalized, objectified and, to a large extent, socialized [...]

—p.48 The Stars Down to Earth: The Los Angeles Times Astrology Column (46) by Theodor W. Adorno
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the supreme ideal of capitalist production

The supreme ideal of capitalist production is—at the same time as it increases net produce in a relative way—to reduce as much as possible the number of those who live on wages, and to increase as much as possible the number of those who live on net produce.

—p.554 Karl Marx: Selected Writings Results of the Immediate Process of Production (547) by Karl Marx
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the domination of the thing over man

The domination of the capitalist over the worker is thus the domination of the thing over man, of dead labour over living labour, of the product over the producer; for the commodities which become the means of domination (in fact only over the worker) are themselves merely the results of the produc…

—p.548 Results of the Immediate Process of Production (547) by Karl Marx