Volume 13, Number 7 · October 23, 1969
On Marcuse
By Alasdair MacIntyre
At the end of One Dimensional Man Marcuse saw only one chance of revolutionary protest, and that was 'nothing but a chance.' The chance was that 'the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, the exploited and persecuted of other races and other colors, the unemployed and unemployable' might turn to radical action. This would involve a meeting of 'the most advanced consciousness of humanity and its most exploited force.' But the 'critical theory' of society expounded by Marcuse can give us no grounds for predicting that this will happen; indeed it is of the essence of his critical theory that it cannot predict. So Marcuse in 1964.
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