A Review To The Transcendent One-Dimension Man Of Marcuse

After the 2nd world war,As the application of science and technology, national implementation of the policy intervention in the economy and other reasons,There appeared new peaks of development in Western capitalism,but also many new features.Late representative of the Frankfurt school of Marcuse who advanced industrial society by the cultural criticism,al well as, on the basis of this criticism put forward by the program beyond the late capitalism that is an important part in the history of Western Marxist thought.Marcuse believes that advanced industrial society is a totalitarian society,there is no opposition political factions to achieve political integration of opposites, is one-dimensional politics. Is not caused by the totalitarian nature of the dictatorship and violence, but advances in technology. In the advanced industrial society, science and technology have achieved the status of a lawful and reasonable, highly developed science and technology and efficient productivity, integrating the whole of society, high consumption bring people into the capitalist system of commerce to make people comfortable, the voluntarily to adapt to the logic of capital operation has become an important element of the consolidation of the bourgeois system. The working class forget that they have been exploited, enslaved status, loss of critical dimensions. The ruling class through the control of political power and technology, successfully used advances in technology to rule the community to protect their own regimes. So that this society has become one-dimensional society, living in which have become one-dimensional person."One-Dimensional Man"This book,Marcuse from the political, ideological, and cultural point of view in-depth analysis of the hidden behind the false prosperity in the capitalist society of alienation and crises; Not only the production process but produce results, for the producers whois a kind of alienation. Through technical and consumer guidance means of social civilization, continue to provide a lot of goods and services to meet the needs of the people of this false and thus control the people's consciousness, manipulating people's lives, so that people with the sense of integration of the ruling class. As a result, people have been assimilated into society as a whole, do you accept blindly to accept the loss of a negative, critical thinking, people are not to pursue a new life, or even to imagine in real life is no longer different from another kind of life. This is the advanced industrial society, the concentrated expression of totalitarianism. This submission resulted in a one-way relieving people become "slaves of industrial civilization," has become subservient to the ruling class and the poor self-perceived well-being of the "One-Dimensional Man." There is no political opposition politics has become one-dimensional politics and culture with the reality of the same up to become one-dimensional culture.In developed capitalist society, the working class to change the status of their enslaved these characteristics, hopes have been impossible for the proletarian revolution, and any lawful act to be an enhanced part of the capitalist system. In such a dilemma conditions, Marcuse proposed the "Third Way" the path of liberation. At the same time, Marcuse that "the aesthetic dimension of the" solution path, Because high culture aesthetic art form and social reality of the alienated while maintaining the business culture has does not have the critical differences in the nature of reality, duty-bound to take to save capitalism, popular culture and deep traps of human tasks, and to restore people's Spirituality and subversive realities of the mission. Marcuse believes that only the art, literature as the center of the "aesthetic of the dimension" of the revolution in order to go beyond people's alienation of the state in order to create fundamentally new human psychology - the concept of structure, and makes reintegration in the emotional and rational harmony, in order to achieve human liberation.