I'm not sure why the author decided to put this on the feet of Herbert Marcuse? It's flat out wrong. Marcuse became a darling of the "New Left," and the young because of his book "One Dimensional Man," not some obscure article. "One Dimensional Man" was a duel critique of consumer capitalism in the US and Soviet Bureaucracy. He argues th…
I'm not sure why the author decided to put this on the feet of Herbert Marcuse? It's flat out wrong. Marcuse became a darling of the "New Left," and the young because of his book "One Dimensional Man," not some obscure article. "One Dimensional Man" was a duel critique of consumer capitalism in the US and Soviet Bureaucracy. He argues that new and more intensive forms of control are coming, the thinning of the political possibilities, the conquest of the consciousness which he called repressive desublimation and the closing of the allowable discourse. It's interesting that these 4 areas are now being exposed by conservatives as part of the left's agenda. Marcuse was, of course, a Marxist, but he seems to have framed the conservative argument.
Rest of the article was interesting................
I'm not sure why the author decided to put this on the feet of Herbert Marcuse? It's flat out wrong. Marcuse became a darling of the "New Left," and the young because of his book "One Dimensional Man," not some obscure article. "One Dimensional Man" was a duel critique of consumer capitalism in the US and Soviet Bureaucracy. He argues that new and more intensive forms of control are coming, the thinning of the political possibilities, the conquest of the consciousness which he called repressive desublimation and the closing of the allowable discourse. It's interesting that these 4 areas are now being exposed by conservatives as part of the left's agenda. Marcuse was, of course, a Marxist, but he seems to have framed the conservative argument.
Rest of the article was interesting................