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Herbert Marcuse and the Catastrophe of Solidarity

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Mao's Cultural Revolution in China

He's trying to analyze two things at once here, and this was very typical of neo Marxism. This meshes with his other work, you can read his 1964 book One-Dimensional Man,. You get the same vibe, he's talking about how everybody's been flattened into a one dimensional society. He says that even this isn't going to be enough, what we actually need to awaken a full liberated consciousness is to induce a new sensibility.

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