I thought about your comment then remembered a quote I'd kept from Marcuse's "Eros and Civilization":
"Man is free only where he is free from constraint, external and internal, physical and moral—when he is constrained neither by law nor by need. But such constraint is the reality. Freedom is thus, in a strict sense, freedom fro…
I thought about your comment then remembered a quote I'd kept from Marcuse's "Eros and Civilization":
"Man is free only where he is free from constraint, external and internal, physical and moral—when he is constrained neither by law nor by need. But such constraint is the reality. Freedom is thus, in a strict sense, freedom from the established reality."
I think this can be read as a kind of mission statement, or at least an explanation as to why "the line of negation" never ends, not even when the Marcuseans gain power.
Their project really is a Deconstruction/dismantling machine with no brakes and no OFF switch: as long as people still believe in any type of social constraint (which I think in their case is definitely the family, religion, the mammalian sex binary, the police etc) the goal remains out of sight and the crusade must continue.
To attempt to attain "freedom from the established reality" is as utopian and quixotic a goal as any ever conceived, and I think this shows that fundamentalist Leftism is a permanent revolution that exists for its own sake and can never be appeased.
Hey Chris!
I thought about your comment then remembered a quote I'd kept from Marcuse's "Eros and Civilization":
"Man is free only where he is free from constraint, external and internal, physical and moral—when he is constrained neither by law nor by need. But such constraint is the reality. Freedom is thus, in a strict sense, freedom from the established reality."
I think this can be read as a kind of mission statement, or at least an explanation as to why "the line of negation" never ends, not even when the Marcuseans gain power.
Their project really is a Deconstruction/dismantling machine with no brakes and no OFF switch: as long as people still believe in any type of social constraint (which I think in their case is definitely the family, religion, the mammalian sex binary, the police etc) the goal remains out of sight and the crusade must continue.
To attempt to attain "freedom from the established reality" is as utopian and quixotic a goal as any ever conceived, and I think this shows that fundamentalist Leftism is a permanent revolution that exists for its own sake and can never be appeased.