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Marxist theory comprehends the established society as a reality to be changed. In any case, socialism could at least be a better society in which human beings could enjoy both more liberty and more happiness. To the degree to which administered human beings today reproduce their own repression and eschew a rupture with the given reality, to this degree revolutionary theory acquires an abstract character. The goal, socialism as a better society, also appears as abstract—ideological in relation to the radical praxis which necessarily operates within the concreteness of the established society.
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© 1978 Herbert Marcuse and Erica Sherover
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Marcuse, H. (1978). Conclusion. In: The Aesthetic Dimension. Communications and Culture. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04687-4_6
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