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The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves, but they are slaves, for slavery is determined ‘neither by obedience, nor by hardness of labour but by the status of being a mere instrument, and the reduction of man to the state of a thing’.

from One-Dimensional Man, p. 32-33, by Herbert Marcuse, Beacon Press, 1991. The last part of the quote is originally from François Perroux, vol.III, p.600, La Coexistence pacifique, Presses Universitaires, 1958.