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What was his endgame?

>> No.9030579

>>9030550
Black tranny erotic utopia.

>> No.9030609

>>9030550
Pretty simple, he thought capitalism was bad and that it was rooted in and made possible by libidinal repression. He thought freeing people's desires (sexual and otherwise), and allowing people to express and fulfill those desires more readily, would destabilize the conditions under which capitalism thrives.

iirc Zizek calls him a "psychoanalytic fundamentalist" in the sense that Marcuse thought that there could be no emancipation without libidinal emancipation -- that capitalist exploitation, racism, sexism, etc., was rooted in libidinal repression.

So basically when tea partiers spaz out about how the "gay agenda" is a plot to overthrow the American, capitalist way of life, while they're being a tad bid hysterical, and probably not accurately describing the actual gay right movement, they're nevertheless at least painting a fairly accurate picture of Marcuse's work.

Obviously though capitalism has had no problem embracing LGBT rights -- indeed it's strongest defenders are among the liberal capitalist elite -- so it seems that Marcuse was at least a bit off about all that.