"Dialectics of Liberation" (Marcuse)

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Post by HerbM » Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:18 pm

In the summer of 1967 Herbert Marcuse spoke at The Congress of the Dialectics of Liberation held in London.
Other participants included political activist Stokely Carmichael, psychiatrist R. D. Laing and poet Allan Ginsberg.
We are dealing with the dialectics of liberation (actually a redundant phrase, because I believe that all dialectic is liberation) and not only liberation in an intellectual sense, but liberation involving the mind and the body, liberation involving entire human existence… Think of Hegel: liberation in the sense of progress and freedom on the historical scale… It is liberation from the repressive, from a bad, a false system … liberation by forces developing within such a system… And liberation by virtue of the contradiction generated by the system, precisely because it is a bad, a false system.
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—Marcuse, “Liberation from the Affluent Society” (1967)
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