"We would have to conclude that liberation would mean subversion against the will and against the prevailing interests of the great majority of the people. In the false identification of social and individual needs, in the deep-rooted, 'organic' adaptation of the people to a terrible but profitably functioning society, lie the limits of democratic persuasion and evolution. On the overcoming of these limits depends the establishment of democracy."
Herbert Marcuse, “A Biological Foundation for Socialism” An Essay on Liberation (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1971), p. 17.
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