马尔库塞以反讽口吻指出高生产力条件下的发达工业社会本质上是一种病态社会。在这种社会情境下，人的生存斗争非但没有随着生产力的发展得到扬弃，反而被统治者视作一种统治工具并加以永恒化。生存斗争永恒化是统治者在虚假需要生产的基础上所强加给人的一种额外压抑。人陷于为虚假需要的满足而不断奋斗的虚假劳动之中，在统治者制造的自由幻境和提供的快感文化中丧失了自主性、批判性，不断地加深自我沉沦、自我奴役的状态。因此，在发达工业社会中，生存斗争永恒化作为不必要的必要性，本质上是一种物化的意识形态。
Marcuse pointed out in irony that the developed industrial society under high productivity is essentially a pathological society.In this social situation，the struggle for human survival has not been abandoned with the development of productive forces.Instead，it has been regarded as a tool of domination and perpetuated by the rulers.The eternalization of the struggle for survival is an additional repression imposed by the ruler on the basis of false need for production.In the false labor that people are constantly striving for the satisfaction of false needs，they lose their autonomy and criticality in the freedom illusion and the pleasure culture provided by the ruler，and constantly deepen the state of self-indulgence and self-slavery.Therefore，in the developed industrial society，the eternalization of the struggle for survival is an unnecessary necessity，essentially a materialized ideology.
