"The conflicts in the third world and the renewed growth of totalitarianism are not mere historical interludes any more than, according to the Dialectic, fascism was at that time. Critical thought, which does not call a halt before progress, requires us to take up the cause of the remnants of freedom, of tendencies toward real humanity, even though they seem powerless in the face of great historical trend."
"Our prognosis regarding the associated lapse from enlightenment into positivism, into myth of that which is the case, and finally of the identity of intelligence and hostility to mind, has been overwhelmingly confirmed."
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, "Preface to the 1969 Edition" in Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, trans. Edmund Jephcott (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002), xi-xii.
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