JeanPaul_Sartre_JeanPaul_Sartre_Basic_Writing

Politics333the total situation, are superstructures, or, in other words, groups which areconstituted in the general, permanent regroupment activity of collectives (classstructures, class against class, national and international organisations, etc.). Fromthe moment that the stage of the dialectical regroupment of dialectics has beenreached, totalising activity itself becomes a factor, a milieu and a reason for secondarygroups. They are its living determination and therefore its negation; but, at thesame time, they confine it entirely within itself, and their dialectical conflicts takeplace through it and by it. In this way, as we saw in The Problem of Method, it ispossible to study them either horizontally (and empirically) in so far as theydetermine themselves in a milieu in which the group structure is already objectivelygiven, or vertically in so far as each of them in its concrete richness expresses thewhole of human materiality and the whole historical process. Thus I need onlyconcern myself here with the fundamental fact of grouping as the conquest orreconquest of the collective by praxis.