Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis
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Cover of the first edition
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| Author | Herbert Marcuse |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Published | 1958 |
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Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis is a 1958 book by the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, in which the author provides a critique of the Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Much of the research was based on Marcuse's work for OSS (predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency) and the State Department after 1945, and the classified intelligence report he wrote.
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.
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