Marcuse located revolutionary potential in outcasts outside the democratic process
Evidence
However, underneath the conservative popular base is the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, the exploited and persecuted of other races and other colors, the unemployed and the unemployable. They exist outside the democratic process; their life is the most immediate and the most real need for ending intolerable conditions and institutions. Thus their opposition is revolutionary even if their consciousness is not. Their opposition hits the system from without and is therefore not deflected by the system; it is an elementary force which violates the rules of the game and, in doing so, reveals it as a rigged game. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 644
Categorization
- XREF: Directly anticipates Marcuse’s later ‘theory of marginal groups’ and the New Left’s turn to students and the excluded as agents. — connects to: Marcuse held bourgeois democracy’s blocked change justified extra-parliamentary direct action — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2672; Marcuse asserted a natural right of minorities to extralegal resistance — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2592; Marcuse pinned his slim revolutionary hopes on outsiders allied with the intelligentsia. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 54 (+1 more)
- SEED: An essay angle: how the Frankfurt School’s revolutionary subject migrated from the proletariat to outcasts, students, and the Third World.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marcuse held bourgeois democracy’s blocked change justified extra-parliamentary direct action — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2672; Marcuse asserted a natural right of minorities to extralegal resistance — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2592; Marcuse pinned his slim revolutionary hopes on outsiders allied with the intelligentsia. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 54 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Marcuse pinned his slim revolutionary hopes on outsiders allied with the intelligentsia.
#corroborates(0.94) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 54