Dutschke’s new voluntarism rejected Habermas’s orthodox Marxism in favor of will

Evidence

In Hanover, Dutschke declared that Habermas’s orthodox Marxist viewthat it was not sufficient for the idea to penetrate through to reality, reality must also penetrate through to the ideawas long since out of date. Dutschke radicalized Marcuse’s view that technological progress created new needs once the reality principle which enforced privation had been superseded, to produce what he called a new voluntarism. He put the emphasis on the will, instead of on an emancipatory tendency concealed within socio-economic development. He accused Habermas of representing a concept-free objectivism that destroyed the subject it was supposed to be emancipating. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2617

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Dutschke’s ‘new voluntarism’ as the emphasis on will over immanent emancipatory tendencies in socio-economic development.
• XREF: connects to: Dutschke replaced emancipatory historical tendency with activist will; The New Left treated Marxism as a problem rather than a solution; Habermas read Marx as a theory of reification, not a critique of capitalism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2301 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The New Left treated Marxism as a problem rather than a solution #expands (0.85)
• Habermas read Marx as a theory of reification, not a critique of capitalism #corroborates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2301