Marcuse held both Cold War blocs to be anti-revolutionary enemies of socialism.

Evidence

The thesis with which Marcuse began his draft read: Following the military defeat of Hitler’s fascism (which was a premature and isolated form of capitalist reorganization), the world is dividing itself into two blocs, one neo-fascist and one Soviet … Those states in which the old ruling class has survived the war economically and politically will, in the foreseeable future, become fascist, while the others will enter the Soviet bloc. Neo-fascist and Soviet societies are economic and class enemies, and war between them is probable. Both, however, are anti-revolutionary and inimical to socialism in the essential forms of their rule … Under these circumstances, there is only one way for revolutionary theory to progress: it must take a ruthless and unequivocal stand against both systems, and stand up uncompromisingly for orthodox Marxist doctrine in opposition to both. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 412

Categorization

• QUESTION: Marcuse labels Soviet society anti-revolutionary and inimical to socialism in ‘the essential forms of its rule’ — which forms does he mean, and how does this square with his later one-dimensional-man thesis?
• XREF: Directly comparable to Horkheimer’s ‘racket society’ and Pollock’s state-capitalism thesis as diagnoses of the postwar order. — connects to: Marcuse demanded revolutionary theory oppose both neo-fascism and Soviet communism equally — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1664; Marcuse predicted postwar states would polarize into neo-fascist and Soviet blocs — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1663
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marcuse demanded revolutionary theory oppose both neo-fascism and Soviet communism equally — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1664; Marcuse predicted postwar states would polarize into neo-fascist and Soviet blocs — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1663

Broader Connections

• Marcuse demanded revolutionary theory oppose both neo-fascism and Soviet communism equally #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1664