ABSTRACT
Bahro's conception seems to imply that universality will still be institutionalized even in a fully developed socialist society: the antistate as state. In actually existing socialism, subjugation is justified by the lag in the economic, military, and technological competition with capitalism. As Bahro's analysis proceeds it becomes apparent to what degree the turn toward subjectivity applies to late capitalism as well. Bahro examines inevitable tendency where it has already evolved into full-fledged domination: in protosocialist society. The question takes us back to Bahro's concept of "surplus consciousness" as a transforming power. Bahro sees the requisite rational hierarchy still needed even under integral socialism as the counter-image of the established apparatus of domination in actually existing socialism. Bahro's revolutionary method transposes the ultimate goal to the beginning. The cultural revolution encompasses the ethical and aesthetic dimensions as well. The anchoring of the opposition in an emancipatory instinctual structure should make possible qualitative change, the totality of the revolution.
