[FRIAM] Herbert Marcuse & Bryan Magee (1978)

[Jon Zingale]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U23Ho0m_Sv0&ab_channel=PhilosophyOverdose

"The economic convulsions that wracked western societies...were seen at the
time, by most Marxists, as being the breakdown of the capitalist system,
which Marxist theory had always predicted. However, whereas according to
the theory, this was supposed to lead to communism, in not one single such
western society did communist regimes emerge, what did emerge in several of
them was fascism."

Bryan Magee opens in this discussion with Herbert Marcuse, and I am left
wondering what Marcuse would think about the world today. One point of
humour for me was to see that the Frankfurt school was so concerned with
unconstrained penetration of the state into the economy, and today it
appears that the reverse is what is so unbearable.
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