“They have again raised the specter (and this time a specter
which haunts not only the bourgeoisie but all exploitative bureaucracies): the
specter of a revolution which subordinates the development of productive forces
and higher standards of living to the requirements of creating solidarity for
the human species, for abolishing poverty and misery beyond all national
frontiers and spheres of interest, for the attainment of peace. In one word:
they have taken the idea of revolution out of the continuum of repression and
placed it into its authentic dimension – that of liberation.”
Herbert Marcuse, "Preface” An Essay on Liberation (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1971), pp. ix-x.
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