Letters

On “The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse”

Editors: Jean L. Cohen writes of “The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse” (Dissent, Winter 1981), expostulating his “penetrating analyses” and “spirit.” In the spirit of Dissent, I dissent. Marcuse was a sad figure and his thought deficient for the following reasons:

1. His one-dimensionality is contrary to socioscientific evidence. 2. Proletarian class consciousness is inhibited by shared societa...