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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


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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? Post your version

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