Science is subordinated to industry within the social division of labor

Evidence

With the gradual closing of this dimension by the society, the self-limitation of thought assumes a larger significance. The interrelation between scientific-philosophical and societal processes, between theoretical and practical Reason, asserts itself “behind the back” of the scientists and philosophers. The society bars a whole type of oppositional operations and behavior; consequently, the concepts pertaining to them are rendered illusory or meaningless. Historical transcendence appears as metaphysical transcendence, not acceptable to science and scientific thought. The operational and behavioral point of view, practiced as a “habit of thought” at large, becomes the view of the established universe of discourse and action, needs and aspirations. The “cunning of Reason” works, as it so often did, in the interest of the powers that be. The insistence on operational and behavioral concepts turns against the efforts to free thought and behavior from the given reality and for the suppressed alternatives. Theoretical and practical Reason, academic and social behaviorism meet on common ground: that of an advanced society which makes scientific and technical progress into an instrument of domination. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 141 (#expands, via linked claim)

In the construction of the technological reality, there is no such thing as a purely rational scientific order; the process of technological rationality is a political process. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 618 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Scientific rationalism becomes an instrument of social domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 141; Scientific-technological ordering is inherently political — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 618; Industrial research data served management interests, not workers’ (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Scientific rationalism becomes an instrument of social domination #expands (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 141
• Scientific-technological ordering is inherently political #expands (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 618