The laborer’s enslavement had also been his source of negating power

Evidence

To the extent to which the machine becomes itself a system of mechanical tools and relations and thus extends far beyond the individual work process, it asserts its larger dominion by reducing the “professional autonomy” of the laborer and integrating him with other professions which suffer and direct the technical ensemble. To be sure, the former “professional” autonomy of the laborer was rather his professional enslavement. But this specific mode of enslavement was at the same time the source of his specific, professional power of negation—the power to stop a process which threatened him with annihilation as a human being. Now the laborer is losing the professional autonomy which made him a member of a class set off from the other occupational groups because it embodied the refutation of the established society. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 178

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the meaning of professional autonomy as enslavement that nonetheless embedded class opposition power.
• XREF: connects to: Losing professional enslavement also costs workers their power of negation. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 178; Violent revolt infects the oppressed with the oppressor’s own evil — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 98

Broader Connections

• Losing professional enslavement also costs workers their power of negation. #corroborates (0.95) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 178
• Violent revolt infects the oppressed with the oppressor’s own evil #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 98