Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its longing for this, which means a dispensation from work, the bourgeois idea of love transcends bourgeois society.
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.