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On Liberation and Liberty: Marcuse's and Mill's Essays Compared

Author(s) -

Clarence Morris

Publication year - 1970

Publication title -

university of pennsylvania law review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.499

H-Index - 58

eISSN - 1942-8537

pISSN - 0041-9907

DOI - 10.2307/3311387

Subject(s) - mill , liberation , philosophy , political science , sociology , law and economics , political economy , history , chemistry , archaeology , biochemistry , in vitro

In An Essay on Liberation,l published in 1969, Marcuse charges that the elders of our society (especially the Establishment) are presently suppressing or thwarting all suggestions for radical change. Until, therefore, rebellious young whites and militant ghetto blacks can mount a revolution unseating the Establishment, our society will remain in thralldom to corporate capitalism. A quest for a zestful life, lived without hurting others, is a hopeless search in our society as it is now structured; men who accept the currently taught aspirations and seek to enjoy generally desired satisfactions injure themselves; corporate capitalism's dependents, by their fealty, perpetuate their own servitude. Thus most young rebels today refuse to school themselves to take conventional places in our obscene society. They hold the following objections:

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