Herbert Marcuse: La ascensión del totalitarismo en la sociedad postindustrial
In the critical thoughts of H. Marcuse, we find political and philosophical keys that allow us to interpret, without much error, the productivity of the diverse forms of consumption in post-industrialized societies, in which development and technological dominance are determined by an historical process in which intersubjective relations and cultural contexts are ever more united and identified by the phenomenon of globalization. An analysis from a Marcusian perspective helps us to understand how and why capitalist society is animated by the spirit and interest in pragmatic and totalitarian rationality, avoiding the perception in this manner of any social consciousness. For Marcuse, the hidden form of totalitarianism is liberalism, which is self-justified in a peaceful society by the ideology of economic liberty, human rights and innocuous political dissidence.