Full Idea
'Instrumental reason' sees everything, including human beings, as resources to be efficiently managed. This was honed in the early Enlightenment, to master nature, but inevitably led to systems of social control.
Gist of Idea
Instrumental Reason aims at efficient management, of humanity as well as of nature
Source
report of T Adorno / M Horkheimer (Dialectic of Enlightenment [1944]) by Jaime Edwards/Brian Leiter - Marx 7.5
A Reaction
This startling book evidently sees the Enlightenment as a supreme source of evil. I guess Bentham's Panopticon illustrates the idea, followed through by Foucault. What can you possibly be for, if you are against reason?
Book Reference
Edwards,J/Leiter,B: 'Marx' [Routledge 2025], p.238