Herbert Marcuse: The Most Hated Philosopher | 1Dime
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Good franklin joke
Well thankfully we liven in the year of 2024 and you can really easily see that the point about how media could never be attained and distributed by the extremes is more that wrong not saying that it wasn't at the time but nowadays it obviously is, because people only care about either extreme shit from the right or from the left and the left the more extreme one holds most of popular media and academia by the balls so interesting point for you to make, which does tie to the more consumeristic problem of capitalist societies that is that the thought is very much controlled by popular media but as I've showed from before at least in the society we live in now that just means it can be as varied as socialism or any other kind of anti establishement way of thinking.
Second what do you mean by there are other "Democracies" because you didn't mention any others yet you said there are many other types of it.
Democracy means that everyone as long as they vote has the power to change and control the course of their country through political representation now plz explain what "other" types of Democracies exist where this is followed yet its a "diferent type of Democracy"?
And in a very sneaky way you skip it towards freedoms and yes there are varied amounts of freedoms like Economical Freedom that is true, yet the bigger point was made before without even going deep into it, how "interesting"!
Third you compare The Language of Total Administration to Orwell's Newspeak which I think I would agree with you on it, because the way people think nowadays there is an immediate shunning from ideas that may seem new or different to theirs, or that go against the grain, but here lies the true problem this happens on all sides you yourself partake in it because it's very obvious how you haven't really given any specific proof that agrees with your points on most of the video, you have either talked about the past and quickly discarded any point to be made about our current state of affairs, or you have only pointed out what Marcuse said not any direct correlation to reality at least the one we live in now, it's again obvious that your underlying resolve is to just push for Marxist ideas which could be valid but you are doing the same thing you are criticising, you are partaking in the same problem Marcuse talks about acording to you, cause ignoring our current situation and just sucking up a idealistic view of the past when it comes to Comunist/Marxist ideas is the underlying message you've been trying to sell during this video and that's the same blindness you claim to be rejecting by understanding Marcuse's ideas, even you say that "Ideology is what obfuscates contradiction" yet that's exacly what you seem to be doing and hiding as if using Newspeak, how Ironic. The only thing you say about our current political landscape is that it doesn't have as much socialists or commies as you'd like on the left which in of itself doesn't really prove much it's just a statement of moral ambiguity to appeal to someone who agrees with your views.
Fourth Democratic Unfreedom was beyond a shadow of a doubt a reality in 50s/60s America yet that no longer is the case as the previous president was very much Fascistic in nature and even tried to overthrow the country I think that very much shows how it no longer works this way if for anything but for the rise of Populist ideas, yet we can look at all Communist countries and see that at those same times, there that was the same for them but it wasn't even democratic and they still are taking part in this though some liberties have been granted they are very much Unfree and always fed what their Overseers decide, so what are you trying to get at? You say that Americans are only "allowed niche spaces to channel their transgressive political urges" but are "fed a plorality of homogenous view points on TV" well again we live in 2024 most people are moving away from TVs, what controlls the masses thoughs are social media and online spaces, again you seem to miss the Irony of your points, now you do say that the most viewed online debates are Jordan B Petterson vs Sam Harris and Ben Shapiro vs Destiny ok and? What does that mean? Was it the megamind of the algorithm God's that made that happen or just maybe debates are somewhat of a spectacle where people check it out if eitheir their interested in one of the debators or if the name is big enough for them to care? Seems more likely no? Hmm interesting how Pluralism now means nothing when it disagrees with your views it's as if I was right the whole time about your actual views and I like that the quote you got didn't really agree with you either How Interesting! He says "If pluralism would strengthen the potential for the containment of qualitative change" now does it do that? Im not sure you didn't actually proce it didn't you unless that by qualitative you obviously mean Marxist or Comunist, ho now it does seem to agree with you and make sense how fascinating its as if you can't tolerate nor consider anything but the narrative you've been fed. Well freedom of speech is either free or controlled that's pretty simple he did believe in sensor then as long as it agreed with him, even though it does make sense for him to feel that way the moment speech is restricted it is restricted, plain and simple. I can sort of agree with the views that our contemporary popular culture and mass media proliferation has lead us through a path that in fact does not allow nor does it seek to allow for the proliferation of mass diversity in not only thought, ideas and diverse art yet it actually kinda does because ut gives the opportunity for everyone to get a chance at speaking through the megaphone, it's very much the only reason this video appeared in my recomended it's the only reason that the most popular ideas online are Marxist in nature when it comes to political views, Marcuse seemed to believe that the worst society would be this one, that it would be worst than any previous Fascist Country maybe in some ways his fears were well founded At The Time, but most likely if you look at the reality we are living in now not the misconstrued misconception, you've made in your mind it in fact is one of, if not THE freest societies to have ever existed and all others that follow behind have for the most part chosen the same ideas and ways of Democracy and mass proliferation of goods, which has yet to come from any of your Idealistic ideas of what Comunist societies are or would be.
In reality Capitalism has many flaws but it has a million less than what Comunism/Marxism has ever managed to bring to the table, so blindly focusing on one of its problems to then say that all of it is the New World Wide Fasciscmo, is not only ridculous but actually harmful, you can't be promoting the ideal of thought and reason when you yoursef haven't done any of it, specially when you can see the results of these two efforts (Capitalism and Comunism), and how one actually answers to the people while the other in fact does not.
marxism is misunderstood. it's not an ideology it's an anti ideology. It's purpose is to convince the working class to abolish the state so a new state can be formed. This is a transitional ideology which exists to facilitate power redistribution, this constant need to treat it as a full fledged ideology is dangeruos and will lead to destruction. You're inviting stronger men to take over. That's all it is, and until I see people talking like that there's nothign intellectual to be gained by discussing it. he's right about stakeholder capitalism but that didn't even exist yet. He was just upset he didn't getpaid very well. I don't get paid very well either but I do not invite absolute tyranny as some sort of solution. I recommend that view.
Brain wash with Tide. 80% take same route every day according to GPS. I c u.
You say he was critical of the students, then show a clip of him basically saying how important he saw them as the vanguard of revolutionary consciousness?
2 penny's. One design and shit ton of 🎉for the ❤ of all man Weather carbon, silicone or whatever based life. It may be for the idea of the tree of life is more unfathomable. Fathomable, then one dimension can cover. So you're best bounce back-and-forth.Really quick like their cat
I really dont think this is only happening in the USA. Seems like its become like this all over the world now.
It's much easer to say what Marcuse was arguing against rather than what he was arguing for. The surveillance state has been implemented very easily in Communist States compared to Capitalist States. The Frankfurt schools' long winded arguments against Instrumental Reason and its' One Dimensional Thinking seems misplaced in a society that is largely driven by Technological Reason and Science. These arguments were better thought out by Jacque Ellul. While Marcuse excused himself from the 60's movements in NA and EU he was a dominant inspiration to the "New Proletariats" and did recommend the inclusion of marginalized groups. As for the mainstream media's exclusive support of a majority status quo we see a marginalized majority and growing support for minority groups i.e. BLM, Transgender and Feminism. As for Capitalism, Milton Friedman said it best: "A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."
I wonder if my music is one dimensional
funny how the radical left now is the mainstream media and academia
I had to pause this multiple times in order to digest all the red pills.
19:23 there is a quote by Marx going something like: man can only be replaced by machines if he already became a machine
I think he has some good ideas but also some not so great ideas. My big criticism would be that his views seem to amount to a type of Utopianism that doesn't take into account human nature especially the more vulgar, perverse, complex side of that nature. For instance what would his stance be on a group like QAnon and its related groups? On paper its what small political revolution and opposition looks like which is an important part of his philosophy but in practice it seems to be quite contrary to many of the other principles that Marcuse held and many view it as potentially dangerous. Clearly political revolution of a minority group or the working class is not in itself a good or bad thing. Much like how Uganda declared they were taking steps to actively reject imperialism and western ideals by declaring homosexuailty a serious crime. They claim it is a corrupt western import that isn't natural.
But then that gets into the broader issue of what he envisioned society could be like if we followed the pleasure principle instead of the productivity principle as he called them. Whatever it is we have maximized through capitalism would seem to not be it, like consumerism and all the goods that came along with that. The mass production of technology like phones and computers would be nowhere near as capable or cheap if not for capitalism taking enormous advantage of cheap resources, environmental degradation and exploitative labor especially abroad. Which I don't necessarily have a problem with less technology, we survived just fine before everyone had smartphones in our pockets and computers at home. However along with that goes all of what we commonly view as technological "advances" as well. Its very unlikely something like alternative energy that requires sophisticated technology and specialized education would be invented for instance. The idea that we should all be able to have cheap single family homes with some property like our parents and grandparents had with access to cheap energy and cheap food as well isn't something we would have because its that that has directly lead to the climate change and the environmental problems we have today. I'd imagine more comunal, high density and low resource intensive housing options would be available instead and energy, food and other goods would be priced with their environmental impact taken into account.
Which leads to another point that ties into the cost of goods. To be clear I think it would be a very good and essential aspect of a better society but overall we would have far less stuff. After all that's the end product of capitalistic productivity, its stuff in general which has come at the expense of environmental degradation and the dehumanization of consumerism. But another way of saying that is the prices of things in terms of the amount of work needed to buy them would be much higher. We would spend a much higher percentage of our income on far fewer things. The cost of travel, especially international travel would be exponentially higher because again it comes at the cost of extreme environmental externalities which we would very much want to avoid. This however obviously contradicts what many people want including those that consider themselves leftists in the US today.
marcuse walked so ranciere could jog
deleuze ran… lmao
Now reading Marcuse's “Counter-revolution and Revolt” because of your content. Keep crushing it!
German, Jewish, Marxist? I see
Oh wow you totally overlooked or simply ignored the fact that he did move to the Soviet Union or any communist country. "A communist Marxist flies Nazi Germany to a capitalist nightmare that is the USA. People are silly.
A tolerant society must paradoxically but necessarily be completely and utterly intolerant of the intolerant.
I think your have something, regarding AI. The place where large language models really shine is, rather unsurprisingly, business communication.
Thank you, a brilliant presentation.
Great vid
So if i understand, the WOKE ideology is instrumental in normalizing and integrating fringe minorities into the status quo?
And since the MAGA ideology is opposed to that integration, they'd rather install a traditional totalitarian regime to achieve that goal of maintaining the status quo?
What is real freedom to him?
Great essay 👍
Nice one 👍
Hegel: one thing and an other thing make another thing. Repeat.
0:19 IT WAS LITERALLY A SEGREGATED RACE STATE WHAT ARE U SAYING
I am opposed to Marcuse because he was supporter of Censorship of opposing Political Views, that too when he lwas free to preach his ideas in an Extremely Anti-Comminist Period
So, more people in advanced western society should learn Hegelian Dialectics?
watching this critique of consumerism interrupted by dozens of ads and one sponsorship is so…well, it's so our lives.
I don't get it
It's amazing how so many things which critical theorists claim to have come up with and their rejection of foundationalism, rationalism, etc. were ideas that one can already find in reactionary thinkers and the conservative revolution.
But nobody reads those people.
Yo i got so damned excited when i realized it was plastic pills reading that one quote! Awesome stuff, gotta love a good cameo
I remember seeing his photo plastered on 4chan with a caption claiming he invented gay people
LMAO BRO
WHO THINKS AI IS NEUTRAL????? Try having a conversation with the right sometime.
I can see you spent time on this subject. Thank YOU for letting me know.
I think you answered you question by telling us that without the complete destruction of media and advertising we will never breakout of our totalitarian society. I’ve suspected as much but couldn’t verbalize it till now. Look around and you will see that 99% think of nothing but avoiding their personal pain at the cost of a functioning society. People in general do as they are told, and unless they are told to be selfless they will only work for themselves. Capitalism is the ultimate control mechanism to guarantee a few elites who could have time to think about society but quickly realize that it isn’t in their interests to change anything in a system they have won. This leads to ZERO change possible in society. Until the masses are denied access to their desires nothing will change. Fortunately, we are now entering a period where domination of the world by one nation isn’t possible anymore and this could led to a change in the masses thinking. Once the elites realize that wealth can’t be taken from far off peoples, they will start to take wealth from their own and the balance in society will collapse. That is when change may happen if some leader guides the masses in the right direction. Or told war will breakout and humanity will cease to exist. I guess we will find out soon.
That complete domination of social-political thinking being so through that any opposition can be co-oped and therefore democracy becomes the most efficient form of domination reminds me of Mark Fisher's despair expressed in "Capitalist Realism", that Capitalism have been so ingrained into the systemic operation of our entire world, even imagining a world beyond it becomes even harder than to imagine the end of the world.
Marcuse’s theories are like all socialist/marxist/communist theories: since our society is not yet socialist, it is totalitarian and repressive. The reason the US was so anti-communist in his days is most likely because people had seen the horrors of communism in the form of the Soviet Union, East Germany and elsewhere in all their glory, where countries had to put up walls to keep people in, not to keep them out. As we get further from such large-scale communism in countries where most of those regimes fell, people forget how awful and destitute socialist societies are, so it starts to look attractive, particularly with so many “intellectuals” peddling the ideas while suppressing the horrible truths. Any society is going to tend to reproduce itself, so to say that means it’s totalitarian is lazy. A free society reproduces the ideology of freedom. A socialist society reproduces the idea of the state as sovereign over the individual. That’s why they put up walls to keep people in socialist societies.
The most hated philosopher to people who are ME. Because I had to read One-Dinmentional Man. To this day it is the worst book I’ve ever read.
Here is why Marx’s predictions didn’t work out was because Marx was talking out of his ASS!
What was the point of the "Dark Side of the Moon" overlay graphic at around 13:32?
Another lefty psychopaths, trying to impose their world views on all of everyone else