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Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 July 29, 1979) was a prominent German-American philosopher and sociologist of Jewish descent, member of the Frankfurt School. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Marcuse, Herbert.

"If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population."

Marcuse, Herbert on Equality
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"Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization."

Marcuse, Herbert on Free Enterprise
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"The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment."

Marcuse, Herbert on Materialism
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"Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another."

Marcuse, Herbert on Obscenity
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"The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it."

Marcuse, Herbert on Oppression
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"Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be."

Marcuse, Herbert on Autonomy
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"If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts."

Marcuse, Herbert on Culture
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