Marcuse holds it that contemporary capitalist state machine imposes their economic and political needs on the freedom of people by means of technology, especially by manufacturing artificial demands.

• 马尔库塞指出，当代资本主义国家机器通过技术手段，特别是通过制造“虚假的需水”，把它的经济需要和政治需要强加给民众的自由。