Marcuse holds containment and breakout tendencies as irreconcilable, with containment dominant.

Evidence

One-Dimensional Man will vacillate throughout between two contradictory hypotheses: (1) that advanced industrial society is capable of containing qualitative change for the foreseeable future; (2) that forces and tendencies exist which may break this containment and explode the society. I do not think that a clear answer can be given. Both tendencies are there, side by side—and even the one in the other. The first tendency is dominant, and whatever preconditions for a reversal may exist are being used to prevent it. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 96

Categorization

• QUESTION: A genuine interpretive puzzle: does the ‘one in the other’ formulation give the breakout tendency more weight than the opening suggests?