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Herbert Marcuse and the Catastrophe of Solidarity

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What Is the Point of Communism?

"Comedy doesn't have the slightest idea what it's talking about," he says. "What on earth will they do if they don't have to work?" Marcuse asks in a famous essay, and there is an answer - but you're about to not hear an answer. For the first time in our lives, we'll be free to think about what we are going to do."

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