Marcuse's Subverting Forces in Transition

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 46 Liberation Series, Part 3 of 4 The more one reads of Herbert Marcuse, the father of the New Left, the less there is to recommend his ideas and more there is to recommend learning about them. This is because thanks to the New Left that he spawned, we live in Herbert Marcuse's twisted world, which may now be in the early stages of collapse. This episode of the New Discourses Podcast features James Lindsay taking us through the third part in Marcuse's infamous 1969 essay, "An Essay on Liberation" (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/1969/essay-liberation.htm). In this part of the essay, Marcuse makes an argument for forging an alliance movement between the bourgeois Leftists students and intelligentsia in the universities and the minority and "ghetto" populations that were, at the time in their militancy movements, showing the necessary energy for revolution. Hear him make the case for the ends justifying the means for Leftist revolutionary movements among other shockers (spoiler: he indicates that his New Left movement should be driven by a refusal to grow up and get a job, for example, because attacking functioning, prosperous, free societies is a moral duty, including by refusing to participate). He even explicitly compares his own movement to what we now call "Clownworld." This episode of the New Discourses podcast is part three in a four-part series that reads through "An Essay on Liberation." Part 1: https://newdiscourses.com/2021/06/biological-foundation-socialism/ Part 2: https://newdiscourses.com/2021/07/herbert-marcuses-new-sensibility/ Join James for the whole series as well as his four-part series on Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" (1965), starting here: https://newdiscourses.com/2021/01/how-not-to-resolve-the-paradox-of-tolerance/ Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com/support patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com pinterest.com/newdiscourses linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: @newdiscourses podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-…es/id1499880546 bit.ly/NDGooglePodcasts open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2021 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back, everybody.
0:22.1	This is James Lindsay.
0:23.1	You're listening to the new Discourses podcast, and we are finally, I guess, continuing our
0:29.1	exploration of Herbert Marcuses, 1969, essay on Liberation, to kind of catch you up
0:37.3	to speed.
0:38.3	This will be the third part out of four in this series, as it is a very long essay broken
0:43.6	into four parts.
0:45.4	The first of those parts we read some time ago went through what he called a biological
0:51.5	foundation for socialism, to kind of just throw that out there and stare at it for a second
0:59.0	is already horrifying, but a biological foundation for socialism.
1:02.4	Now he clarifies that he doesn't mean biology, biology, you know, he doesn't mean like real
1:07.3	biology, biology, although do you trust these people with their double meanings of words?
1:11.4	Of course, we don't trust these people with their double meanings of words, but what
1:15.8	he describes as biological might more accurately, it's not quite psychological because he
1:22.0	distinguishes from it, but it's probably best to think of it as a psychological level.
1:27.0	What he's trying to say is that he wants to create a new kind of man that is changed
1:34.1	in terms of how he perceives the world, so that he can't function in the world as it is
1:40.6	because he sees how intolerable the oppression, the systems of power, the exploitation, etc.
1:48.5	Or the alienation is, and he's going to overthrow these because he's going to want a new
1:55.3	liberated world, he wants to achieve liberation, and to get there we need to have at the biological
2:02.0	level, meaning the level of his needs, he doesn't literally mean, he says he doesn't literally
2:07.6	mean the biological level, but at the level of his very needs, he's going to need liberation
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