Marxism, Revolution and Utopia

Herbert Marcuse's Collected Papers, Volume 6: Marxism, Revolution and Utopia
edited by Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce, Routledge [Dec. 2014]

This sixth and final volume of Marcuse's collected papers shows Marcuse’s rejection of the prevailing twentieth-century Marxist theory and socialist practice - which he saw as inadequate for a thorough critique of Western and Soviet bureaucracy - and the development of his revolutionary thought towards a critique of the consumer society. Marcuse's later philosophical perspectives on technology, ecology, and human emancipation sat at odds with many of the classic tenets of Marx’s materialist dialectic which placed the working class as the central agent of change in capitalist societies. As the material from this volume shows, Marcuse was not only a theorist of Marxist thought and practice in the twentieth century, but also proves to be an essential thinker for understanding the neoliberal phase of capitalism and resistance in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

• Introduction
  Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce
• Part 1: Studies in Marxism
  1. Review of Karl Volander: Karl Marx - Sein Leben und Sein Werk
  2. Recent literature on Communism
  3. Dialectics and Logic Since the War
  4. 1954 Afterword to Reason and Revolution
  5. Review of George Lichtheim: Marxism
  6. Epilogue to the New German Edition of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
  7. The Concept of Negation in the Dialectic
  8. History of Dialectics
  9. Can we speak of a repression, or system of repression, specific to the USA?
  10. The Relationship of Hegel to Marx
  
• Part 2: Marxian Interventions
  11. Herbert Marcuse speaking at Cuba protest meeting, Brandeis University, May 3 1961
  12. The Emancipation of Women in a Repressive Society
  13. Socialism in the Developed Countries
  14. Socialist Humanism?
  15. The Obsolescence of Marxism
  16. Revolutionary Subject and Self-government
  17. The Realm of Freedom and the Realm of Necessity
  18. The Realm of Freedom and the Realm of Necessity. A Reconsideration
  19. Re-examination of the Concept of revolution
  20. Angela Davis and Herbert Marcuse: KPIX Newsclips transcription of Angela Davis/Herbert Marcuse at Sproul Plaza, Berkeley, October 24, 1969
  21. Prof. Herbert Marcuse speaking at a rally for Angela Davis, Berkeley, October 24 1969 (full transcript)
  22. Herbert Marcuse, NBC, January 31, 1971, On Angela Davis
  
• Part 3: Lectures and Interviews on Marxism, Revolution and the Contemporary Moment
  23. Obsolescence of Socialism?
  24. Professors as State Regents
  25. Herbert Marcuse: Philosopher of the New Left
  26. Varieties of Humanism: Herbert Marcuse talks with Harvey Wheeler
  27. Revolution 1969: Discussion with Henrich von Nussbaum
  28. ACLU Conference presentation on civil liberties, May 21 1969, and Marcuse letter on Civil Liberties
  29. Can Communism be Liberal?
  30. Marx and Para-Marx on capitalist Contradictions
  
• Part 4: Letters, Testimonies, and Responses to Critics
  31. Letter to Max Horkheimer, September 9 1942
  32. Correspondence with Raya Dunayevskaya
  33. Fromm, Lowenthal, Adorno?
  34. Preface to The Democratic and the Authoritarian State
  35. Soviet theory and practice
  36. Letter to Karel Kosik, March 22 1963
  37. On Paul Baran
  38. On Changing the World: A Reply to Karl Miller
  39. Reply to my Critics, Guardian, May 1968
  40. Letter by Martin Peretz on Herbert Marcuse, September 10 1968
  41. A Letter, Neues Forum, April 1970
  42. On Henry Kissinger
  43. Letters to Rudi Dutschke, April 11 1970, April 16 1971, and February 24 1973
  
• Part 5: Marxism and Revolution in an Era of Counterrevolution: Marcuse in the 1970s
  44. Marxism and the New Humanity: An Unfinished Revolution
  45. An Interview with Herbert Marcuse, April 1978
  46. The Reification of the Proletariat
  47. Protosocialism and Late Capitalism: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis Based on Bahro's Analysis
  48. Radical Change, Lecture at Muir College, April 23 1979
  
• Afterword: Reflections on Herbert Marcuse and Marxism Peter Marcuse.
• Index

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