Sunday, January 31, 2021

Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (Herbert Marcuse, 1958)

Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis is a 1958 book by the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, in which the author provides a critique of the Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It received positive reviews, describing it as a convincing discussion of its subject.

Marcuse sees domination in the Soviet Union as linked to the Soviet bureaucracy and new rationality of industrial societies.[1] The individual is forced to submit to the machine process.

Marcuse also critiques the Soviet division between "DiaMat" and "HistoMat". Unlike the philosopher Karl Marx, the Soviets saw historical materialism as an application of dialectical materialism, rather than a single unity. He claims that the emphasis on the dialectic of nature de-emphasizes history.[2]

我們需要另一本書

中國特色社會主義:一個批判的分析