Herbert Marcuse - Technology of Liberation (1967)

[@vlad_o_sh]

One of the best speeches I heard in a while. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@charleswofford6296]

Brilliant, as always with Marcuse. The man had a way not only with words, but with ideas, and communicated essential critiques of existing society in a compelling and sophisticated manner. He gives us a fantastic vision of the integral socialist society articulated toward 41:30. "The most utopian, the most radical possibility of liberation today. What does it mean concretely? I said, we are not concerned here with private sensitivity and sensibility, but sensitivity and sensibility, creative imagination, play, becoming forces of transformation. As such they would guide, for example,. the total reconstruction of our cities and of the countryside. The restoration of nature after the elimination of the violence and destruction of capitalist industrialization. The creation of the internal and external space for privacy, individual autonomy, tranquility. The elimination of noise, of captive audiences, of enforced togetherness, of pollution, of ugliness. These are not, and I cannot emphasize it enough, snobbistic and romantic demands. Biologists have emphasized that these are organic needs of the human organism, and that their perversion and destruction by capitalist society actually mutilates the human organism, not only in a figurative, but in a very literal sense. I believe that only in such a universe, men can be truly free, and truly human relationships between free beings can be established. I believe that the idea of such a universe, guided also Marx's concept of socialism, and that these aesthetic needs and goals must, form the beginning, be present, in the reconstruction of society and not only at the end or in the far future. Otherwise the needs and satisfactions which produce a repressive society would be carries over in the new society." Marcuse's note about the "restoration of nature" and the necessary conditions for a "truly free, truly human" society refute the cheap shots right wing propagandists take at him for "denying nature" or for trying to destroy freedom. Marcuse articulated a devastating critique of the status quo, and the political right has never forgiven him for that.

[@absoluterefusal]

Thanks for uploading these. Excellent stuff.

[@crucifytheego100]

But just as unuseful today as it was then

[@MrKidgavilan]

@@crucifytheego100 totally clueless comment.

[@crucifytheego100]

@@MrKidgavilan comments are comments, clues are for science. Or at least for those who are interested in others' points of view.

[@timblackburn1593]

@@crucifytheego100 How come? Seems like a rational response

[@jimjohnhaywire]

There's a ghostly moment when the tape warps edging towars the ten minute mark and it kind of 👻 me out!

[@RenatusChristoph]

Progress in servitude!

[@blairhakamies4132]

Certain Homo Sapiens die with the satisfaction that they used the neocortex during their lives. Thank you for sharing it. 🌹

[@36cmbr]

This is what was meant by sound thinking way back in the day. Pyramid building reasoning , and dynamic proof that the laborer is worth his hire.

[@lalaboards]

None of what you stated holds water . The laborer is only as valuable as his performance . This is not sound thinking . It’s void of logic ,reason , human nature and reality .

[@gunorijssel7987]

MOST DEFINITELY NOT FOR THE MANY!!!!