Paul Mattick Bio
Mattick, 
Paul
(1904-1981), fellow German emigre, Marxist sociologist and economist; independent
scholar after McCarthyism
- See Wikipedia Mattick
page: One of his important works was Critique of
Herbert Marcuse: The one-dimensional man in class society (1969, 1972),
in which he forcefully rejected the thesis according to which the proletariat,
as Marx understood it, had become a "mythological concept" in
advanced capitalist society. Although he agreed with Marcuse's critical
analysis of the ruling ideology, Mattick demonstrated that the theory of
one dimensionality itself existed only as ideology. Marcuse subsequentially
affirmed that Mattick's critique was the only serious one to which his
book was subjected.
