There hints of "Eros" among the American power elite in non-Disney cartoons. Bugs Bunny was a male kisser, the Loony Tunes jabbed later confirmed womanizer Bing Crosby for womanizing and Tex Avery had Red Hot Riding Hood being persued by a perfect metaphorical representation which was a limousine-riding wolf. Even as he arrived in America, there was also a hint of it in Betty Boop cartoons.

Marcuse was a Nazi propagandist in denial

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If it ain’t laissez faire capitalism it’s not capitalism. Anything else is a mixed economy.

@@lamalamalex cringe

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Marcuse was a Nazi propagandist in denial. A lot of his erotic liberation stuff resembled Nazi Germany's sex culture. Whites are most likely to bred with whites. Unless he encouraged interracial-only eroticism, which he did not, he was a fit Nazi propagandist. He cared more for fornication than homosexuality.

It really is a great book.

_Wilhelm Reich wrote the original... Psychoanalytic Marxist book. He actually was a third-generation psycho-analysist._ _By the way, the FDA burned his books and threw him in jail, bc he knew how to turn the deserts to green, making it rain, and the reverse, and, how to cure cancer and mental illness. Don't overlook Reich in your studies_

Hell ya brother

Would love to see some videos done on Erich Fromm. Particularly from his works "Sane Society" and "The Fear of Freedom".

Somtum Somtum Me as well! Especially since, as many observers of the Fromm/Marcuse debate have noted, their criticisms and positions have much more in common than both would agree. Which isn’t a surprise, since both started out together back in Frankfurt. Strictly speaking, Fromm was the one who made the Marx/Freud synthesis possible.

YES!

I agree! Fromm is not highly regarded enough. His idea of the social character is a similarly compelling synthesis of Freud and Marx, and I'd be curious to see how the debate between him and Marcuse is tackled. I wonder if Marcuse was a bit unfair on Fromm's view, who as Jakob says is maybe closer to his view (albeit distinct) than Marcuse says.

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It's actually a deep-state conspiracy. You guys have it all wrong it's THAN-TAN-OS! Stop buying into that non-sense. No, just kidding I fucked that part up. Sorry lol. Thanks for making it past that.

@@epochphilosophy why do we keep using greek and latin words anyway? its a dead language ergo it should not be used

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Did you not see the year, do you not know how much eugenics was going on in psychology during ww2, you don’t see any reason for someone in that time period who’s a Holocaust survivor to be skeptical of much of the field?

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Marcuse is extremely interesting. Makes perfect sense he was a celebrity among the civil-rights, mid-20th century left.

Marcuse promotes “polymorphous perversity”

@@timberrr1126 Reminds me of how Engels described the poor's sexual culture as polyamourous. Who were the beneficiaries of Marcuse's repressive desublimation? .

@@chrisgrant1319 desublimation isn’t a word is the Oxford or Merrimac dictionaries. “By offering instantaneous, rather than mediated, gratifications,[4] repressive desublimation was considered by Marcuse to remove the energies otherwise available for a social critique; and thus to function as a conservative force under the guise of liberation.”

12:53 XD

Sin embargo, si entendiste de lo que se trata este video

I intuitively agree completely that this Pinker-like assumption is vastly exaggerated/disguised by numerical metrics that merely approximate value in a constricted "bounded rationality" and I wonder if it takes a sublimation of the death drive toward a collectively mutual ends against an individually perceivable common enemy to realign this focus toward an escape velocity that passes such a threshold of class or even more broadly "humanity consciousness" a la Watchmen. I think to your initial point though about technology and the internet specifically, allows one to embrace a customized individualized 'hyperreality' as a sort of false consciousness critical mass pressure valve, especially considering corporate power's ability to dominate the space of digital simulacra by means of our convenient de facto assumption that "property rights" should somehow and for some reason carry over to the digital realm despite the transparent lack of scarcity in the medium. But yeah, broadly speaking, even in feudalism though the serfs did not own the land, they at least still had some sort of general control over the product that land produced in the sense that aside from the fealty their labor was not completely alienated by things like productivity monitoring technology inside the workplace and basically an addictive digital panopticon for marketing/perpetual alienation that masquerades as a substitute for social interaction outside the workplace.

YEP- One of the greatest book ever indeed. I read back in the 1970s from a Marxist viewpoint and those ideas (along with many others of Marcuse's works) have stayed with me now into my mid-70 y.o.) .Great video and a faithful and fruitful rendition of this seminal work in 'social(ist)l psychology'.Read Marx,read Freud et al and CHANGE this Hellish world of the commodity fetish, the Society of the Spectacle (DeBord). Vinceremos!!!..

We can critique Marcuse, I have a few critiques myself tbh (mainly on art as liberation), but that article was so fucking bad lmfao.

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You mean the guy who uses racial slurs at some of his seminars, you think that guys not stoking racial warfare 😂 I haven’t seen someone defend tony robbins in a long time

I truly hope this is some sort of a joke or bait comment. You people who call philosophers architects of discord and destruction are a scary bunch

Yup. No one has done a cohesive video on this book so I figured I would do so! It's a good one.

Epoch Philosophy just finished the video - makes me want to read it all the more! Great job man

I would love to. I want to cover a bit more traditional Marx, some more critical theory and some Derrida and Foucault before I hit Baudrillard, Deleuze, Jameson, etc.

Epoch Philosophy good idea. S&S is also not the best work to first start off with Baudrillard. Id recommend the Consumer Society and Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign are good ones to start with because he went from a big transition from structuralist Marxism to post-struturalism and rejecting many of Marx’s ideas

No wait, what I meant to say was just: "hahaha you spelled Thanatos wrong"

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What is this the mcarthy trials 😂

Why do you think he's not politically declared? Why shouldn't he be a Marxist?

Also 12:00

You didn’t pay attention. The point is that these factors (alienation, impoverishment, lack, etc.) are measurably worse due to capitalism and their harshness would be alleviated with a different mode of production