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What happened to Marx after 1917 was a disaster. A thinker needs beatification like a hole in the head!

We were just getting used to seeing Lukacs as a great modernist when he came out with a scurrilous, hysterical attack on modernism.

Administrators, soldiers, scientists, even entrepreneurs - everybody in modern society - is forced into the Procrustean bed of reification and systematically deprived of the freedom that everyone is supposed to enjoy

Orpheus, Narcissus and Dionysus - and Baudelaire and Rilke, whom Marcuse sees as their modern votaries.

the dumb docility in which their bosses have tried to immure them