Surplus repression grows with domination over nature and strengthens destructive instincts.

Evidence

The notion that deprivation shall not exist, that no one in the world shall go hungry anymore – in other words, the notion that the abolition of distress be fulfilled – itself requires an increase in the forces of production, and thus the domination of nature. Not only is this increase deeply entwined with the anti-materialist principle, it is only conceivable in the first place insofar as human beings – who, in their domination of external nature, are supposed to learn to dominate themselves – are constantly subjected to disallowances. The conception of a state without disallowances, the unfettering of the forces of production, the elimination of distress. That is, to be possible at all, the utopian element of unlimited fulfilment indeed requires – in order to be possible at all according to its own sense – limitation, asceticism, a particular element of repression, of oppression. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1572 (#expands, via linked claim)

This set in motion a process which rejected and mutilated nature, in reaction to both the promise of happiness and the supremacy of nature. What it rejected and mutilated were both the capacity for devotion within humanity’s inner nature and the temptations of outward nature; and also both the capacity for fear in humanity’s inner nature and the terrors of outward nature. This diminution of desire and fear was intended to make it possible, with constant presence of mind, to wrest existence from nature, which was either viewed with indifference or seen as an enemy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1403 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ending deprivation requires increased domination of nature and self-repression — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1572; Repression of nature throughout civilization provokes revenge in social rebellion. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1469; Dominating nature chiefly becomes power over other humans — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 703 (+6 more)

Related

• Ending deprivation requires increased domination of nature and self-repression (similarity 0.92)
• Nature is the object of reason as liberation, not only domination (similarity 0.83)
• Repression of nature throughout civilization provokes revenge in social rebellion. (similarity 0.82)
• Civilization has always faced revolts against its repression of nature. (similarity 0.82)
• Total mediation makes nature nothing but domination-available, eliminating any positive first nature (similarity 0.81)
• Rational self-preservation conquers nature only by imitating nature’s own rigidity (similarity 0.81)
• Civilization deliberately mutilates both inner desire and outer fear to dominate nature. (similarity 0.80)
• Dominating nature forces us to serve our own devices to survive. (similarity 0.80)
• Humanity’s domination of nature fails because inner nature remains unruly (similarity 0.80)
• Adorno rejects mastery of nature as progress because domination entangles humanity in nature (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Ending deprivation requires increased domination of nature and self-repression #expands (0.95) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1572
• Mastery over nature becomes mastery over other humans, weakening the individual. #expands (0.90)
• Civilization deliberately mutilates both inner desire and outer fear to dominate nature. #expands (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1403
• Dominating nature chiefly becomes power over other humans #expands (0.88) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 703
• Repression of nature throughout civilization provokes revenge in social rebellion. #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1469
• For Adorno, conceptual identification itself constitutes domination over nature. #expands (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1264
• Nature is the object of reason as liberation, not only domination #qualifies (0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 826
• Unlimited individual freedom breeds new repression through natural inequality #qualifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 534
• Marcuse distinguished surplus repression from basic repression, tying it to domination #corroborates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2133