By Michael Löwy THE WRITINGS of Marcuse, who died last week aged 81, made a significant contribution to the massive youth radicalisation which reached its peak in 1968.
Here was an almost unique instance leading ideologue of a mass (student) anti-capitalist upsurge.
Dutschke leaders of German Socialist Students considered themselves his disciples, as did the Berkeley protest movement, • the Movimento Studentesco in Italy, Angela Davis, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and others.
Of course, most of the radicalised students in the 1960s did not read his writings, and he was almost unknown in France before May '68. But the fact that some of the movement's leading cadres were influenced by him meant that many of his ideas wider circulation among the mass of students.
One reason for his impact was probably that Marcuse, friends from the Frankfurt Institute Horkheimer, Habermas), gave fuli and open support to the students and Thet ils. bil lne mail ining that their feeling and intuitions so Ine problems which concerned Marcuse.
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same conceptual tools to 'On based which dealt with some stressed first that capitalist society and alienated labour GATOR needs capacittes and the horizon of their demands. Capitalism itself creates the by deformed and mutilated needs which can be satistied within the gien social The quality which characterises these false needs, their conformism — US capitalism, which, despite its liberal appearance, showed itself capable of crimes no barbarous than those of Germany. He defined the advanced industrial society of the USA as a one-dimensional system ideas, aspirations and objectives that, established universe of discourse and their couleu. transcend action are either repelled or reduced to the terms of this universe'.
affluence and achievements — which eliminates or less integrates all fundamental qualitative fascist opposition to the regime.
One-Dimensional critical theory possesses no concepts which the bridge the gap between the present and its future; holding no promise and showing no success, it remains negative. loyal to those who, have given and give their life to the show ICU LESC, strata minorities radical potential revolution'.
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curren the basic Socialist Challenge 9 August 1979 as alienated labour.' And in answer to the second argument, it is easy to that intellectual labour FeLICI semi-proletarian condition (as he himself was later to Marcuse's position, fact, amounted to a stalemate in the 1960s. On the one hand, he saw "marginal' students and national - as provag e ol opposition to advanced industrial capitalism. On the other hand, he admitted in 1967 that 'the workers are still and always the only of possible acclli for Eisenhowerand largely Marcuse and French Nouvel incorporating proletarial If the class become need for fundamentally freed from and penetrating and by his Arrowsmith. Organised by SE London UTOM.
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