Marcuse as an unclear writer? Reason and Revolution explained Hegel so clearly to me, that it catipulted my interest in not only studying him and Kant, but motivating me to learn German.

"Repressive tolerance" = p. c. Censorship

I love how she ends the interview ascribing a certain opinion to her audience - that of disagreeing with Marcuse, seeking to modulate it to the constraints of a hegemonic position, in place of solely presenting the content and allowing them to draw their own conclusions, thereby clearly exemplifying the criticism put forth by Marcuse and the Frankfurt School in respect to the cultural industry.

Sit back, kick off your shoes, roll up a banana skin, click newest first, and enjoy the 13-year-old commentators who don’t even watch the video.

I so agree with him - dissent is tolerated only to the degree where it is not disruptive to any society. And conformity is oppressive, without a doubt.

You can expose a liar and a hypocrite when they say they want freedom through violence.

April 25th, 1979, 3 months before he nonrepressively desublimated.

Marcuse passed away 3 months after this interview.

I love how advocates of societal projects are able to put the imposition of their ideas on everyone and the word "freedom" in the same sentence. A good society needs to be good for everyone, and what is good is relative to each individual and encompasses an infinity of factors. Every model of society is the imposition of one person's model on all others, and by definition, always carries the seed of totalitarianism. Not even Jesus had a recipe for society, just render to Caesar what is Caesar's. He just came to prepare souls for transcendence. Nothing more delusional than love and passion for a future society created in your own head from which you judge the present real world.

"someone who takes a free and democratic society seriously". if that's a marxist i guess that's me.

The interviewer is Helen Hawkins, not HawkinXgXs: "Helen S. Hawkins, Ph.D., was a producer & host of KPBS humanities programs, an historian, co-founder and first president of San Diego National Organization for Women, and publications director for the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. ... In the late 1970s Dr. Hawkins joined KPBS television as Executive Producer of Humanities programming. During her 6 years there she produced more than 100 television programs, many of which focus on women's rights and issues of the time. Her work received an Emmy and a silver gavel from the American Bar Association."

A very insightful interview, before the rise of internet.

Delusional utopianism. This is how men go mad when God is ׳dead’

She is a very good interviewer

I love his interviewer!

Marcuse, another brilliant German thinker, who was wrong about just about everything.

Utopia means ‘no place’

Still very relevant, maybe even more so. 🌈🦉

Funny, I strongly disagree with Marcuse on which of his books is better. He thinks Eros and Civilisation is better than One-Dimensional Man. Noooo way. One-Dimensional Man is his best one by far and one of the most important books in the 20th century, even though I have strong philosophical disagreements with him.

Would have liked to hear more of his treatment of the idea of "surplus repression" as it relates to current discussions around big tech: selective deplatforming, cancel culure, etc. Pressures from the government put on big tech as a form of surplus repression in the public square. Coaxing the currrent progeny of the "New Left" of Marcuse's time into being cheerleaders for this "surplus repression." Marcuse does indeed admit here that there has always been violence, and that counter-violence is the only acceptable form of violence. Are not these repressive, stifling actions of big tech the same repressive, violent acts in a different form? And although the form of repression is different, the function is certainly the same: to silence the opposition with one hand and to use the other to write shallow justifications of their hypocrisy without admitting to the hypocrisy. And without publicly owning their own violence (repression).