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Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Herbert Marcuse

Powerful, Liberty, Made

Herbert Marcuse (1964). “One dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society”

The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

Herbert Marcuse

Acceptance, Personality, Liberty

Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.74, Beacon Press