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Reason & Revolution by Herbert Marcuse - a good book on dialectics? (www.marxists.org)

submitted 1 week ago by CommonTern@lemmygrad.ml to c/communism101@lemmygrad.ml

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I was told this is a good book to understand dialectics. Is it worth reading? If not, I’m sticking with Maurice Cornforth.

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[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 days ago

No, he's a western chauvinist. I recommend reading Losurdo's western Marxism, which has a section on him, and this gabriel rockhill article: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

See Gabriel Rockhill comment on marcuse first

[–] CommonTern@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you have a link?

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

https://youtu.be/kcTqDz2DQlI

This is a starting point

[–] zanghor123@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Marcuse was involved with oss, the cia predecessor if I remember correctly

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, thats pretty much the content of the video

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