Thanks for the extensive reply. I appreciate it.
As far as I can see there are few substantial remarks:
1. Distance regarding working class
2. Transfer of revolutionary Subject
3. Personal remarks ( I am surprised and shocked with Adorno defending US
imperialism)
4. That framework is outdated
I have read an interview with Marcuze recently ( it was made by Habermas,
when on Herbert's birthday ( 80 years think), perhaps someone read it?
Interesting fact is that Marcuze, trying to resist tireless attacks made by
Habermas, is altering his theory according to which Subject of revolution is
working class, and only working class. Student movements, civil right
movements, feminist groups, he is calling them "anticipating groups,
catalizators ".....His main thesis here is that revolution must be - in the
atmosphere of preventive counter-revolution, revised and that model of
revision should be the instruction that revolution should not be regarded as
a consequence of pauperization but as a consequence of consumer society. He
repeats his idea that only pre-structuring of instincts, from destructive to
creative, is going to bring to the light of history a new man Marx has
described (Eros vs. Tanatos). He is altering some of his positions on
aesthetics ( from _Affirmative Character of Culture_ to _Permanency of
Culture_).....There are some other interesting modifications.
He is claiming his loyalty to Adorno and Horckhaimer and justifies his
campaign against From in a new manner.
But he thinks that the crucial moment in critical theory is the trajectory
of capitalism- consumer society- destruction.......
So, two questions:
1.) What do you think about Marcuze's insistence on similarities between him
and Adorno + Horkhaimer , and
2.) What do you recognize today as central framework of critical (meta)
theory?
Question number two is rather interesting in Europe now because of the
attempts to revitalize critical theory in some Marxist circles.........
Comradely,
Andrej
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