Herbert Marcuse, "Liberation from the Affluent Society" (1967)

Marcuse's lecture at the 1967 London "Dialectics of Liberation" conference, first 8 minutes, from Peter Villon's DVD distributed at the Oct. 2009 Toronto Marcuse conference, which includes discussion with the audience afterward. The text of the lecture is published and available at marcuse.org/herbert/publications

[@cardplayer07]

thanks for the upload.

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

I miss the days when bespectacled professors would lecture amidst cirrus clouds ☁️ of tobacco smoke... 💨

[@kellyanquoe6301]

wow. this guy is directly advising the most powerful humans (material world humans) to give up ALL institutional authority in order to save their future image in history. of course he's modest. he is showing the way. plain.

[@JosbradDrowningbear]

Liberation expedience.

[@Hi-pw1qc]

He’s a totalitarian nut and they are following his teachings.

[@Eongalactus]

Apesar de Marcuse ter pronunciado estas palavras a 43 anos atrás, é surpreendente a atualidade e a importância do seu pensamento no momento atual do que o Brasil vive, assim como o resto do mundo, seja nas sociedades afluentes como Estados Unidos da América ou Inglaterra, seja em países pobres como os países da África e Ásia. Este vídeo mostra por que Marcuse é um dos mais importantes filósofos da nossa era. ( This video shows why Marcuse is one of the most important philosopher of our age.)

[@gabrielbritovieira9933]

Ele tá é queimando no inferno..

[@lugasue]

´Muy buen discurso.

[@returnroquentin]

And read Heidegger's Being& Time

[@paullap88]

I was going to ask if that was the case. Quite the little surprise!

[@NietzscheMarx]

That's Tariq Ali looking at the camera at 0:19-21!

[@jorgschmidt-wottrich9999]

read, thing and act

[@dallaskenn]

I agree with Harold. LOL!

[@hmarcuse]

Easy to call people names, hard to formulate an argument.

[@hmarcuse]

Why? I'm just reading about Günther Anders' critiques of Heidegger, and from that secondhand perspective don't think that it would be that relevant to us today (as it was to Heidegger's students in the 1920s, including Marcuse, Anders, Heidegger's onetime lover and Anders' wife in the 1930s, Hannah Arendt, among others).

[@jorgschmidt-wottrich9999]

read, think and act (sorry!)

[@pretoriano.]

Nunca ouvi tanta besteira. Ideias mofadas

[@drytung9526]

Recording of the first word salad.

[@returnroquentin]

There is no formidable authority on Heidegger so you need to think for yourself. And his work is the most relevant philosophy ever..to refute that is to dismiss Buddhism. But if yr inclined to secondhand perspectives than read Sartre misinterpret him. Its theorized that theres a hidden message in his work that cant be ciphered from its colloquialism. Marcuse may seem more accessible but that does not make him @all more relevant presently.

[@petroniaskho]

Nonsense.

[@manuelcastro3382]

PBonBear Marcuse would intellectually walk circled around you.

[@diegocolomes]

Look at the faces of the audience! Seems like no body understand nothing. Seems like this kind of jung people hope some other kind of speech, something more "revolutionary" something for make the feeling of being part of the revolution... Most of this jung people with flowers simply is not at the level of more deeply and serious thinking. (sorry about my bad english, but once more: just look the people´s faces) Bye.

[@hmarcuse]

So how do you find that Marxism "damaged" society? I think the capitalist financiers who tanked our economy in 2008 did a heck of a lot more damage than any Marxist. Or are you just ranting without any real knowledge of Marxism?

[@petroniaskho]

As far as I recall, 2008 didn't kill 100 million people. Unless I missed that news story.
Marxism always leads to starvation and genocide.

[@jonathanbailey1597]

@@petroniaskho That's not a tenable position to hold at all. The figures are speculative, but, moreover, you are referring to Sovietism, and the various strands of (historically proximate) communist totalitarianism. If you read Marx's essay on 'crude communism' you'll see he warned against the totalitarian tendencies of reactive communism, and further, Marx would never have endorsed vanguardism of the kind that metastasised into Sovietism. So your claim is bogus, rhetorical, and trades on 'boogeyman' myths.
Herbert Marcuse was one of the finest scholars of the 20th century, and his work as prescient now than it was during the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s.

[@hmarcuse]

As if this comment shows any evidence of intelligence--I'd love to hear what gets you so upset that you have to resort to name-calling.

[@relaxingsounds1386]

what an evil man