National liberation could topple even the most powerful technical apparatus of repression

Evidence

The more rational, productive, technical, and total the repressive administration of society becomes, the more unimaginable the means and ways by which the administered individuals might break their servitude and seize their own liberation. To be sure, to impose Reason upon an entire society is a paradoxical and scandalous idea—although one might dispute the righteousness of a society which ridicules this idea while making its own population into objects of total administration. All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual’s own. The process always replaces one system of preconditioning by another; the optimal goal is the replacement of false needs by true ones, the abandonment of repressive satisfaction. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 119 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Technical administration makes the possibility of liberation progressively more unimaginable — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 119

Related

• Technical administration makes the possibility of liberation progressively more unimaginable (similarity 0.91)
• Successful administration absorbs the very needs that could spark revolt (similarity 0.85)
• Modern repression operates from strength through efficiency, not through terror (similarity 0.81)
• Even a fully nationalized economy requires revolutionary, not gradual, change for liberation. (similarity 0.81)
• The most effective suppression of liberation works by implanting false needs. (similarity 0.80)
• Technical progress produces a comfortable, democratic unfreedom (similarity 0.79)
• Liberated society still needs centralized technical control over vital goods (similarity 0.79)
• Technical progress becomes a liberating force only beyond automated material necessity (similarity 0.79)
• Nationalization alone cannot alter technology’s embodied rationality (similarity 0.79)
• Imposing liberation from above is unjustifiable yet no riskier than current liberal rule. (similarity 0.78)
• Liberation from technological domination requires preserving the technological base (similarity 0.78)
• Affluence and liberty serve as the guise through which domination absorbs all opposition (similarity 0.78)
• Self-determination cannot precede the abolition of exploitation (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Technical administration makes the possibility of liberation progressively more unimaginable #contradicts (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 119