Survival is life reduced to economic imperatives. Reality is giving answers to the problem of transcendence before our so-called revolutionaries have even thought of formulating this problem. Whatever is not transcended rots, and whatever is rotten cries out for transcendence. FEbut only in the sense in which we sometimes say of a murdered man that he made his murderer's task easier.
Survival is non-transcendence become unlivable.
The mere rejection of survival dooms us to impotence. Capitalism has demystified survival. It has made the poverty of daily life intolerable in view of the increasing wealth of technical possibilities. Survival has become an economizing on life. The civilization of collective survival increases the dead time in individual lives to the point where the death forces are liable to carry the day over collective survival itself.