Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis

Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis
Cover of the first edition
Author Herbert Marcuse
Country United States
Language English
Subject Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Published 1958
Media type Print

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.

Background

Much of the research was based on Marcuse's work for OSS (predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency) and the State Department after 1945, and the classified intelligence report he wrote.[1]

Summary

Marcuse sees domination in the USSR as linked to the Soviet Bureaucracy and New Rationality of industrial societies.[2]

The individual is forced to submit to the machine process.

Marcuse also critiques the Soviet division between "DiaMat" and "HistoMat". Unlike 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.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Marcuse, Herbert (1985). Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis. Columbia University Press. p. ix. ISBN 9780231083799. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism By Douglas Kellner. pp. 201–202.
  3. ↑ Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism By Douglas Kellner. pp. 212–215.


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