Country United States Media type Print | Language English Originally published 1958 | |
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Subject Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Similar Herbert Marcuse books, Communism books | ||
Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis is a 1958 book by philosopher Herbert Marcuse, in which Marcuse provides a critique of the Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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Background
Much of the research was based on Marcuse's work for OSS and the State Department after 1945, and the classified intelligence report he wrote.
Summary
Marcuse sees domination in the USSR as linked to the Soviet Bureaucracy and New Rationality of industrial societies.
The individual is forced to submit to the machine process.
Marcuse also critiques the Soviet division between "DiaMat" and "HistoMat". Unlike Marx, the Soviets saw Historical Materialism as an application of Dialectical Materialism, rather than a single unity. He claims that the emphasis on the dialectic of nature de-emphasizes history.