The ruling class’s freedom produces the necessity that enslaves everyone

Evidence

Thus, within the framework of a given situation, industrialization can proceed in different ways, under collective or private control, and, even under private control, in different directions of progress and with different aims. The choice is primarily (but only primarily!) the privilege of those groups which have attained control over the productive process. Their control projects the way of life for the whole, and the ensuing and enslaving necessity is the result of their freedom. And the possible abolition of this necessity depends on a new ingression of freedom—not any freedom, but that of men who comprehend the given necessity as insufferable pain, and as unnecessary. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 781

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the book’s central thesis that freedom-within-domination is how advanced industrial society administers itself — bridges to attention-economy critiques of ‘choice.’ — connects to: Freedom from domination is treated as a universal human desire; The system’s celebrated freedoms function as instruments of domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 45; Oppressors invoke their own freedom to justify oppressing others

Broader Connections

• The system’s celebrated freedoms function as instruments of domination #expands (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 45
• Freedom from domination is treated as a universal human desire #contradicts (0.80)
• Oppressors invoke their own freedom to justify oppressing others #exemplifies (0.78)