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Herbert Marcuse and the Catastrophe of Solidarity

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The Deep State and the Military Industrial Complex

He says everywhere this has been tried, it's not working because strategy is not being guided by the correct theory. And he really cuts it out in successful capitalist countries, right? It's altogether inapplicable, he says, in countries where the integration of the working class is the result of basically a successful economy and large markets. He blames neo colonialism and administered democracy for failing to achieve what he wants. But his analysis here, at the time, you could see him as an early Warner, somebody doing an early warning of what has become this monstrous deep state that's now collapsed in its policy.

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