Marcuse served the New Left as a canonical revolutionary theorist by 1968.

Evidence

The Frankfurt School had just begun to emerge into public consciousness as a theoretical inspiration-still, to be sure, only dimly understood—of the New Left here and abroad. Its impact was, in fact, now spreading well beyond the confines of academia.’ When I arrived in Berkeley, one of the main protagonists in the story I hoped to tell, Herbert Marcuse, was in hiding from death threats in Lowenthal’s summer home in Carmel Valley. Only a few months before, during the “events” of May in Paris, student enrages had displayed placards emblazoned with the names “Marx/Mao/Marcuse.” — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 4

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to accounts of the 1968 student movements and Marcuse’s role as a New Left icon — e.g. Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man and the Paris May events. — connects to: Marcuse’s American popularity carried Critical Theory into the New Left — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 93; Marcuse’s 1960s counterculture enthusiasm gave way to 1970s pessimism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 1423; One-Dimensional Man angered orthodox Marxists while galvanizing the New Left. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 53 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Marcuse’s American popularity carried Critical Theory into the New Left #expands (0.92) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 93
• Marcuse’s path to New Left celebrity bypassed the Institute entirely #qualifies (0.88) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 854
• One-Dimensional Man angered orthodox Marxists while galvanizing the New Left. #corroborates (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 53
• Marcuse’s 1960s counterculture enthusiasm gave way to 1970s pessimism #complicates (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1423