Herbert Marcuse's analysis of advanced industrial society as a totalizing system that eliminates genuine opposition by integrating the working class through consumer satisfaction and technological rationality.
Advanced capitalism produces one-dimensional thought by closing off the negative dimension — the awareness of alternatives — through the saturation of needs and the integration of labor. Critical theory must recover the dialectical negativity that one-dimensional society suppresses.
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