Herbert Marcuse

Friend of the working man

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​https://www.zerohedge.com/political/marcuse-anon-cult-pseudo-intellectual

I never read any Marcuse, but apparently he's (according to famous 9/11 truth hater Matt Taibbi): 

Often called the “Father of the New Left,” and the inspiration for a generation of furious thought-policing nitwits of the Robin DiAngelo school, Marcuse was a great intellectual. Most Americans have never heard of him — he died in 1979 — but his ideas today are ubiquitous as Edison’s lightbulbs. He gave us everything from “Silence Equals Violence” to “Too Much Democracy” to the “Crisis of Misinformation” to In Defense of Looting to the 1619 Project and Antiracist Baby, and from the grave has cheered countless recent news stories, from the firing of Mandalorian actress Gina Corano to the erasure of raw footage of the Capitol riot from YouTube.

Marcuse is so influential that subscribers thought it would be a good idea to review his books, rather than go one-by-one through the seemingly interminable list of homage texts dominating bestseller lists in recent years. When I told a friend, he warned with a chuckle about the author’s “spectacularly bad synthesis,” mimicking the old Reese’s Peanut Butter cup jingle: “You got your Marx in my Freud!” I read One-Dimensional Man, and a painful collection essays that included the famed Bible of post-liberal thinking, Repressive Tolerance. Conclusion number one: a person more hostile to the sensual possibilities of literature would be difficult to imagine. Reading Marcuse is like eating a bowl of thumbtacks. The style is nothing, however, next to the ideas. My God, the ideas!

Wikipedia tells us that Marcuse was a "German-American" philosopher. Then it tells us he was from a Jewish family. He studied under Edmund Husserl, who, according to Wiki, was a German philosopher who was born into a Jewish family. They were followers of Marx, ditto. It must be said again and again, Jews cannot be American or German or French, they can only be Israelites unless they abjure that religion and adopt Christianity.