The fact that the practical power of modern society... has broken off of its own accord... and established an independent realm in the spectacle... can only be explained by this additional fact... that practical power continued to lack cohesion, and had remained in contradiction with itself.
O que o poder práctico da sociedade moderna se desprendera de si mesmo e edificara para si un imperio independente no espectáculo, só pode explicarse porque esta práctica poderosa seguía carecendo de cohesión e estaba en contradición consigo mesma.