The History of Critical Race Theory: Part 1 The father of the new left
"Herbert Marcuse ( / m ɑːr ˈ k uː z ə / ; German: [maʁˈkuːzə] ; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher , sociologist , and political theorist , associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory . Born in Berlin , Marcuse studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then at Freiburg , where he received his PhD. [5] He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research – what later became known as the Frankfurt School . He was married to Sophie Wertheim (1924–1951), Inge Neumann (1955–1973), and Erica Sherover (1976–1979). [6] [7] [8] In his written works, he criticized capitalism , modern technology, Soviet Communism and entertainment culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social control . [9]
Between 1943 and 1950, Marcuse worked in US government service for the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency ) where he criticized the ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the book Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (1958). In the 1960s and the 1970s he became known as the preeminent theorist of the New Left and the student movements of West Germany , France, and the United States; some consider him "the Father of the New Left". [10]
His best known works are Eros and Civilization (1955) and One-Dimensional Man (1964). His Marxist scholarship inspired many radical intellectuals and political activists in the 1960s and 1970s, both in the United States and internationally."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse
This is the man who started what is known as "critical theory." As you can see it began long ago. Most notable of the many books he wrote was "An essay on Liberation" (1969), in which he celebrated various liberation. The stuff that young leftist radicals fall in love with. One of the criticisms of his work was that he openly advocated violence to attain the desred ends. Sound familiar?
In 1972 he wrote "Counterrevolution and Revolt" which argues that the hopes of the 1960s were facing a counterrevolution from the right.
"In this book Herbert Marcuse makes clear that capitalism is now reorganizing itself to meet the threat of a revolution that, if realized, would be the most radical of revolutions: the first truly world-historical revolution. Capitalism's counterrevolution, however, is largely preventive, and in the Western world altogether preventive. Yet capitalism is producing its own grave-diggers, and Marcuse suggests that their faces may be very different from those of the wretched of the earth."
https://www.amazon.com/Counterrevolution-Revolt-Herbert-Marcuse-ebook/dp/B009U9S71G
I await and pray for the great Counterrevolution.