cribe Marcuse's thoughts when he against the society. In the West this writes: "Science is counter-revolu- energy is released through the tionary because it seeks to control development of greater sexual pernature, and hence human nature." missiveness.
This is a serious misunderstanding This is what Marcuse calls "repof Marcuse's intentions. Science ressive de-sublimation." He writes cannot be separated from the con- in the preface to the Vintage edition text of the society in which the of Eros and Civilization: hic which certainly is a disturbing text. essay Repressive Tolerance. published, ( spared the Second World War. The might have heon but not for the reasons that Sedg- withdrawal of tolerance which wick gives. He has been misled by had in mind refers only to movements whose aggressive character what he thinks is a call for censorship. But it is impossible to analyse Is beyond any doubt. I have never this part of the essav separately advocated any kind of censorship from the rest of the argument in it. for example. The Dialectics of Liberation Congress was sponsored by the Institute o Phenomenolosical Studies, London, and was a unique gathering to demistir human violence in all its forms, the social systems from which it emanate and to explore new forms of action.
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er, urged them to serve as detona Integration. ers for the revolution). One can it might be unpleasant for a lot egret the fact that Marcuse's of people that the working class in oughts have not played the part western societies do not seem to ey are supposed to have. I think be willing to revolt against society myself. When see the anti- unless their revolutionary fervour is tellectual, spontaneistic, and over- ignited by a fringe group like the ptimistic romantic trends that at This does not, however, resent are so prominent among mean that Marcuse believes that a lany left wing students, I wonder revolution can be successful withhether student movement out support from the working class. night not need some of Marcuse's What he states is that the critical tellectual analyses and his realis- tradition in our societies is being c "pessimism." carried forward by groups that have I will try to elaborate on a few not reached the stage of apparent f the interpretations and ideas integration, for example the black eter Sedgwick puts forward in his masses in America, me students in tonary becau This is a sorious misuncersiancing of Marcuse's intentions. Science ressive de-sublimation. He writes in the preface to the Vintage edition cannoree separatee rom ne context of the society in which the of Eros and Civilization: science functions. Hence in an op- "I propose in this book the nopressive society science will serve tion of a 'non-repressive sublimaoppressive ends. The very notion tion': the sexual impulses without that there is something called pure losing their erotic transscience, is one of the most dange- cend their immediate object and rous parts of bourgeois ideology, eroticize normany non- and antiand it is just this tendency to make erotic relationships between the a distinction between science and individuals, and between them and social structures that Marcuse their environment. Conversely one attacks. He believes that in order can speak of 'repressive de-sublito reach the state that Marx called mation": release of sexuality character But it is impossible to analyse Is beyond any doubt. I have never this part of the essay separately advocated any kind of censorship from the rest of the argument in it. for example, in art and literature." Marcuse makes a critique of the so- At last I would like to refer anycalled liberalism of a pluralistic one Interested in a critique of Marcapitalist society, and shows that cuse's thougts to a book edited by freedom of speech has in reality Jurgen Habermass, called Antworalready been taken away from radi- ten auf Herbert Marcuse (edition cal groups, because they are being Suhrkampf, Frankfurt, 1968). There denied the right to use the mass- it is possible to find a critique of media ine same way as ine conser this important philosopher based vative forces. In our society oppo- on an understanding of philosophy sitional elements are not being and of what Marcuse has set out to locked up in jails they are being do. The Delecte of Libera mas sponsored by the leathete of Phesomenological Stodies, London, and was a unique gathering to dembtity human violence in all is forms, the social systems from which It emanates and to explore new forms of action.
The majority portion of the proceedings are now available in a series of 23 long playing records from the Black Dwart:DLI Gregory Bateson Conscious Purpose us Nature DL2 Bateson (1) & Speck (5) continued DL3 David Cooper Beyond Words DL4 R D Laing The Obvious DL5 Ross Speck The Politics & Psychotherapy of Mini & Micro Groups DL. 6 Stokely Carmichael Black Power—Address to Congress DL 7 Stokely Carmichael Black Power—Address to Black Community DL 8 John Gerassi Imperialism & Revolution in America DL 9 Gerassi (8) & Marcuse (11) (continued)