Communist states replaced political coercion with technological domination
Evidence
In the East, the gradual reduction of direct political controls testifies to increasing reliance on the effectiveness of technological controls as instruments of domination. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 158
Categorization
- XREF: The convergence of East and West on technical rationality prefigures Fukuyama’s ‘end of history’ debate but with a darker, domination-centered reading. — connects to: Liberation from technological domination requires preserving the technological base — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 812; Socializing production without breaking technological domination yields authoritarianism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 493; Totalitarian rule replaces external coercion with domination from within each person (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Socializing production without breaking technological domination yields authoritarianism
#expands(0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 493 - Political change becomes social change only through redirecting technology
#expands(0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 801 - Liberation from technological domination requires preserving the technological base
#complicates(0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 812 - Technology’s political neutrality collapses when it becomes the universal form of production
#expands(0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 572 - Capitalism breaks with prior production yet continues domination over objects
#expands(0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1602 - Totalitarian rule replaces external coercion with domination from within each person
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