To the domination of the sacred spectacle of the ritual succeeded the profane ritual of the spectacle of which art is the paragon. Art is the good conscience of a world based on enslavement. It is the image which the private property of the material means of all communication wants to give of itself. This lamentable expedient is entirely conditioned by the fact that it cannot nor wants to think its own material-practical base in the modern inclusive theocracy. What remains unavowable for artists, is that they thrive on misery.
Culture is the ideal commodity, the one which makes one pay for all the others.
Art is the finished form of the dictatorship of desire. The freest art is only free as spectacle of a freedom which men are dispossessed of everywhere. Accomplice in the dictatorship of contemplation, when it wants to be critical , it is but the theological criticism of theocracy. Progressist art is the prototype of this buffoonery that art is. Once endorsed the refusal of art, the form or aesthetic of the antitheocratic revolutionary activity and theoretical-practical content is not solved by itself.