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"What we [[need ]] today is not the passage from the 'critique of [[political ]] [[economy]]' to the [[transcendental]]-[[ontological ]] 'critique of instrumental [[reason]]', but a [[return ]] to the 'critique of [[political economy]]' that would reveal how the standard Communit [[project ]] was ''[[utopian]]'' precisely in so far as it was not ''radical enough'' - in so far as, in it, the fundamental [[capitalist ]] thrust of unleashed productivity survived, deprived of its [[concrete ]] contradictory [[conditions ]] of [[existence]]. The insufficiency of [[Heidegger]], [[Adorno]] and [[Horkheimer]], and so on, lies in thier abandonment of the concrete [[social ]] [[analysis ]] of [[capitalism]]: in their very critique or overcoming of MArx, they in a way ''[[repeat]]'' [[Marx]]'s mistake - like Marx, they perceive unbridled producitvity as something that is ultimately ''independent'' of he concrete capitalist social [[formation]]. Capitalism and [[Communism ]] are not two different historical realizations, two [[species]], of 'instrumental reason' - instrumental reason ''as such'' is capitalist, grounded in capitalistrelations; and 'actually existing [[Socialism]]' failed because it was ultimately a subspecies of capitalism, an [[ideological ]] attempt to 'have one's cake and eat it', to break out of capitalism while retaining its key ingredient.<ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the [[Christian ]] Legacy is Worth Fighting For, [[London ]] and New York: Verso. p. 18</ref>