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Herbert Marcuse and the Catastrophe of Solidarity

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Marcuse's Call to Remake Man

The idea of creating a new biological project in man or whatever that's tied in with eugenics has been this kind of a thing within, you know, Marxist and communist thought going back all the way to Marx himself. We see Marcuse about 120 years later, after Marx is writing about raising this consciousness for the new Soviet man. So again, I interpret this essay as him saying that in order to achieve liberation, which is a newfangled neo Marxian term for communism, he says liberated society is like socialism without bureaucracies.

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