Marcuse framed rebellion as a physiological reaction to suffocation, not revolution.

Evidence

Three years later, when the police evicted students from the Institute of Social Research (see below, p. 633), Marcuse again explained his basic attitude to the student opposition to Adorno: `We know (and they know) that the situation is not a revolutionary one, not even a pre-revolutionary one. But this situation is so horrible, so suffocating and humiliating, that rebellion against it forces you into a biological, physiological reaction: you can no longer bear it, you’re suffocating and you have to get air … it is the air that we (or at least I) also want to breathe one day. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2605

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt-flavored theme of ‘the desire for silence’ as a biological imperative already in the reader’s library — suffocation and the need for air parallel that survival-drive framing. — connects to: Student rebellion arises from physiological suffocation rather than revolutionary conditions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2669; Camus defined rebellion as setting limits against tyranny rather than pursuing utopia. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 810; Marcuse justified oppressed violence on historical-function not ethical grounds
• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the ‘On Sacrifice’ article’s theme of actions driven by existential desperation rather than strategic calculation.
• SEED: Essay angle: how post-1968 theory justified protest without revolutionary theory — the moral-existential grounding of political action.

Broader Connections

• Student rebellion arises from physiological suffocation rather than revolutionary conditions #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2669
• Camus defined rebellion as setting limits against tyranny rather than pursuing utopia. #responds-to (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 810
• Marcuse justified oppressed violence on historical-function not ethical grounds #qualifies (0.75)