By 1968 Marcuse was attacked from right, orthodox left, and Institute colleagues alike

Evidence

Only a few months before, during the “events” of May in Paris, student enrages had displayed placards emblazoned with the names “Marx/Mao/Marcuse.” Pilloried by the anti-Communist Right in California, which sought to terminate his contract at the University of California, San Diego campus. Marcuse was also the target of increasingly virulent attacks by the orthodox Left. Despite the principled support he extended to his controversial former student and Communist Party leader, Angela Davis, he was denounced for having abandoned the proletariat as agent of revolution. Marcuse, it soon became evident to me, was equally a source of uneasiness for most of his former Institut colleagues who were alarmed by his outspoken political militancy. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 4

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to The Frankfurt School history chapter on Marcuse’s 1960s militancy and its split with former Institute colleagues like Adorno. — connects to: Marcuse’s militancy alienated him from his former Institute colleagues. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 4; Jews were attacked simultaneously from left and right as capitalist and liberal symbols — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 388

Broader Connections

• Marcuse’s militancy alienated him from his former Institute colleagues. #exemplifies (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 4
• Jews were attacked simultaneously from left and right as capitalist and liberal symbols #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 388