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Notes and References Notes and References Introduction 1. Reflecting on Marcuse's role in the New Left after his death, Ronald Aronson writes: 'In the 1960's Marcuse legitimized us. As we broke with the conventional authorities - the parents - all around us, no matter how minimally we understood his words, we found a message of confirmation from this caring but severe figure. One-Dimensional Man expressed how negative, how oppressive was this society that seemed so positive. It broke with the American end-of-ideology smugness intellectually as the Civil Rights movement broke with it politically. Marcuse gave philosophical and historical validation to our inarticulate yet explosive demand for a totally different vision. He made available to us a genuinely alternative intellectual culture, style of thought, and reservoir of ideas and writings' (from 'Herbert Marcuse. A Heritage to Build on', Moving on (Fall1979) p. 10). 2. Herbert Gold, 'California Left. Mao, Marx et Marcuse!', Saturday Evening Post, 19 October, 1968 p. 59. 3. Paul Breines, in Critical Inte"uptions, ed. Paul Breines (New York: Herder & Herder, 1970) p. ix. 4. Marshall Berman, Partisan Review, XXXI (Fall 1964) p. 617. 5. On 'Marcuse as Teacher', see William Leiss, John David Ober and Erica Sherover in The Critical Spirit, ed. Kurt H. Wolff and Barrington Moore, Jr (Boston: Beacon Press, 1967) pp. 421-6. 6. Aptly describing Marcuse's absorption into the 1960s culture, Martin Jay writes: 'Through what the French, in a delightful phrase, call 'Ia drug-storisation de Marcuse', he has himself become something of a commodity. No article on the New Left is complete without a ritual mention of his name; no discussion of the 'counter culture' dares ignore his message of liberation'. See 'The Metapolitics of Utopianism', Dissent, vol. XVII, 4 (1970) p. 342. 7. The 'crisis of Marxism' has been analysed by various Marxist (and non-Marxist) thinkers throughout the century. See the discussion by Karl Korsch in Karl Korsch: Revolutionary Theory, ed. Douglas Kell­ ner (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1977) and the discussion of various theories of the crisis of Marxism in Alvin W. Gouldner, The Two Marxisms (New York: Seabury Press, 1980). Notes and References 377 8. Alasdair Macintyre calls Marcuse a 'pre-Marxist' thinker, while vari­ ous Soviet critics, Maurice Cranston, Hans Holz and others call Marcuse 'anti-Marxist' or 'anarchist'. See Alasdair Macintyre, Herbert Marcuse: An Exposition and a Polemic (New York: Viking, 1970); Robert Steigerwald, Herbert Marcuses Dritter Weg (Cologne: Pahl­ Rugenstein, 1969); Maurice Cranston, 'Herbert Marcuse', Encounter 32, 3 (1969) pp. 38-50; and Hans Heinz Holz, Utopie und Anarchis­ mus. Zur Kritik der kritischen Theorie Herbert Marcuses (Cologne: Pahl-Rugenstein, 1968). Morton Schoolman claims that 'Max Weber has certainly made the greatest single contribution to Marcuse's effort', claiming that Weber's works, and not Marx, were the decisive theoreti­ cal influence on Marcuse. See The Imaginary Witness (New York: Free Press, 1980) pp. 137 and 179ff. Throughout this work, I shall criticize such interpretations by making clear the Marxian roots, methodology, framework and political intentions of Marcuse's enterprise. 9. See Carl Schorske, German Social Democracy 1905-1917 (New York: Harper and Row, 1972). On the Second International's schisms in the First World War, see Hartfield Krause, USPD. Zur Geschichte der Unabhdngigen Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Frank­ furt: Suhrkamp, 1975). 10. Interview with Herbert Marcuse, 28 December 1978 in La Jolla, California. 11. Marcuse, 5L, pp. 102-3. 12. For a similar criticism, see Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason (London: New Left Books, 1975). By 'orthodox Marxism' I mean the version of Marxism dominant in the Social Democratic and later Communist parties. Orthodox Marxism, in this usage, is a political-sociological concept which refers to the version of Marxism institutionalized in a political movement, or organization, which domi­ nates its party journals, speeches and textbooks. Such official Marxism is usually dogmatic and rigid, although orthodoxy may change in response to political exigencies. The orthodox Marxism dominant in Marcuse's early period was that of Social Democrats like Bernstein, Kautsky and Hilferding, and then Bolsheviks like Lenin and Trotsky. As Karl Korsch pointed out in 1930, these versions of Marxism shared certain premises concerning Marxism as a theory of the laws of society and history ('scientific socialism'), which often took the form of historical determinism. Moreover, orthodox Marxism generally takes the base-superstructure distinction as the key to historical materialism, often leading to economic reductionism. It places a primary emphasis on politics and economics while playing down the importance of culture, philosophy and the subjective dimension, and contains, with some exceptions, hostility towards Hegel and dialectics. See Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy (London: New Left Books, 1970) pp. 98ff. On the critiques of orthodox Marxism by Lukacs and Korsch, see, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Adventures of the Dialectic (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1973). 13. Herbert Marcuse, in Men of Ideas, ed. Bryan Magee (London: BBC Publications, 1978). The end of the interview returns to this theme: 378 Notes and References MAGEE: I'd like to end our discussion by putting to you one or two of the criticisms most commonly made of your work. The most impor­ tant of all is one that I've put to you already: that you are clinging to the thought-categories of a theory which has been falsified, namely Marxism, and that you consequently persist in seeing and describing everything as other than it is. The world you talk about simply is not the one we see around us. It exists only in your thought-structures. Is there anything more you would like to say in answer to that criticism? MARCUSE: I do not believe that Marxian theory has been falsified. The deviation of facts from theory can be explained by the latter itself-by the internal development of its concepts. MAGEE: If all the defects you acknowledge in Marxism do not cause you to abandon it, what would? MARCUSE: Marxian theory would be falsified when the conflict between our ever-increasing social wealth and its destructive use were to be solved within the framework of Capitalism; when the poisoning of the life environment were to be eliminated; when capital could expand in a peaceful way; when the gap between rich and poor were being continuously reduced; when technical progress were to be made to serve the growth of human freedom- and all this, I repeat, within the framework of Capitalism. For a similar defence of what is still valid in Marxism, see Marcuse's 'The Obsolescence of Marxism', in Marx and the Western World, ed. Nicholas Lobkowics (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967) pp. 409-18, discussed below in 8.3. 14. The first studies of Marcuse either grossly oversimplify his thought, reduce it to an easily digestible cultural commodity, or, on the other hand, abruptly dismiss it in polemics that are often politically moti­ vated. They include Robert Marks, The Meaning of Marcus,e (New York: Ballantine, 1970); Macintyre, Herbert Marcuse: An Exposition; and the right-wing polemic by Eliseo Vivas, Critique of Marc use (New York: Delta, 1972). See the impassioned critiques of these and other early books on Marcuse by Paul Piccone in Telos, 3 (Spring 1969) pp. 150-8; Russell Jacoby in Telos, 5 (Spring 1970) pp. 188-90; and Robin Blackburn in Telos, 6 (Fall1970) pp. 348-51. 15. This is true of the best late 1960s/early 1970s studies ofMarcuse, such as the articles collected in Jiirgen Habermas (ed.) Antworten auf Herbert Marcuse (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1968); Holz, Utopie und Anarchism us; and John Fry, Marcuse- Dilemma and Liberation (New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1974). These works - and most of the early articles on Marcuse- focused on One-Dimensional Man or his defence of revolutionary violence just when Marcuse was altering his perspec­ tives on advanced capitalism and social change. See the discussion in Chapter9. 16. The best studies of Marcuse have focused on his relation to Freud and include Sidney Lipshires, Herbert Marcuse: From Marx to Freud and Notes and References 379 Beyond (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schenkman, 1974) and Gad Horowitz, Repression. Basic and Surplus Repression in Psychoanalytic Theory: Freud, Reich and Marc use (Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1977). See my annotated bibliography for further comments on the Marcuse literature. 1 Origins: Politics, Art and Philosophy 1. Herbert Marcuse, 'Lebenslauf', appended to his doctoral dissertation, Der deutsche Kunstlerroman (Freiburg i. Br., 1922); reprinted in Schriften 1 (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1978) p. 344 (hereafter Sl). 2. Conversation with Herbert Marcuse, 28 December 1978, La Jolla, California; see also Sidney Lipshires, Herbert Marcuse: From Marx to Freud and Beyond (Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1974) p. 1. We shall see that Marcuse's interviews on his early experiences often contain contradictions and that he simply was not concerned to be overly precise because he did not think that the experiences of his youth were particularly important. Accordingly, my discussions with him concerning his early life focused on his 'road to Marx', which he agreed was of utmost importance in appraising his life and thought. 3. Conversation with Marcuse, 28 December 1978. Marcuse also told Helmut Dubiel that he had rarely actively experienced anti-semitism in Germany. See Helmut Dubiel and Leo Lowenthal, Mitmachen wollte ich nie (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1980) pp. 27ff. Consequently, like Marx, Marcuse was never especially interested in the' Jewish question', as were other Jewish Marxists like Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch. Nonetheless, Marcuse's Jewish origins may have helped produce alienation from bourgeois society, which may help explain his sharp critiques of bourgeois society and search for an alternative model of society and culture.
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