Maley - One-dimensional man 50 years on: the struggle continues

One
Dimensional
Man
50 Years On

One
Dimensional
Man
50 Years On

The Struggle Continues

edited by
Terry Maley

FERNWOOD PUBLISHING
HALIFAX & WINNIPEG

Copyright 2017 Terry Maley

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The editor would like to acknowledge the support of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto.

Fernwood Publishing Company Limited gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, the Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism under the Manitoba Publishers Marketing Assistance Program, the Province of Manitoba, through the Book Publishing Tax Credit, the support of the Province of Nova Scotia through the Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage and the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

One-dimensional man 50 years on: the struggle continues / edited by Terry Maley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-55266-929-7 (softcover). ISBN 978-1-55266-930-3 (EPUB). ISBN 978-1-55266-931-0 (Kindle)

1. Marcuse, Herbert, 1898-1979. One-dimensional man. I. Maley, Terry, author, editor

B945.M2984 O64 2017 191 C2016-908103-6 C2016-908104-4

Contents

Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to many colleagues and friends. Without their support this book would not have come into being. My partner Patricia McDermott was critical in helping me formulate the idea for the volume. She has been involved in many struggles in the womens and labour movements and in academia as a faculty association activist. Her courage and unwavering commitment to social justice inspire and sustain me. As the fiftieth anniversary of One-Dimensional Man ( ODM ) approached (in 2014), we recalled the influence ODM had with students, activists and the movements in the 1960s and began to think through its continuing relevance today.

Many thanks to my graduate students who are so engaged with Marcuses work in their own projects. A shout-out to members of the International Herbert Marcuse Society: Andy Lamas, Arnold Farr, Lauren Langman, Charles Reitz, Sarah Surak, Peter Erwin-Jansen, Imaculada Kangassu, Robespierre de Oliveira, Peter Marcuse and Douglas Kellner. Their engagement with Marcuses more activist version of critical theory, for which the theory and practice of human emancipation are central, has also made this collection possible. Their own multi-dimensional contributions appear as a sub-text throughout this collection. And thanks to Thom Workman for his encouragement and support throughout.

Finally, the collection would not have been possible without the sure guidance of my editor at Fernwood, Candida Hadley. Her wise counsel and generosity were much appreciated. Thanks also to Brenda Conroy for her expert copy editing.

Contributors

Jrmie Bdard-Wien is an activist and co-founder of the independent media outlet Ricochet . Jrmie was a leader in the 2012 student protests in Qubec, has given talks and interviews across Canada and the E.U. over the past few years, and now works with Qubec Solidaire.

David Bedford teaches political theory in the Political Science Department at the University of New Brunswick. David wrote on the Great Law of Peace of the Haudensaunee Confederacy (with Thom Workman), and the intersection of Marxist and Indigenous thought in The Tragedy of Progress: Marxism, Modernity and the Aboriginal Question (with Dan Irving). David has also played in the band of, and written about, Canadian blues legend Dutch Mason in On the Road with Dutch Mason: The Prime Minster of the Blues (with Harvey Sawler).

Tom Cheney is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University. His publications include Labour, Nature and Spirituality, in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (with David Bedford) and The Kahnaw:ke Standoff and Reflections on Fascism, in the journal Socialist Studies (with David Bedford). Toms work builds on the ecological critique of Marcuse and the critical theorists of the Frankfurt School.

Richard Day teaches in the Department of Sociology, Queens University. Richard has written on radical utopian pedagogies and emancipation from the neoliberalism, and has been involved in anarchist and anti-racist pedagogy. He is editor of the journal Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture and Action and author of Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements , and Angry Indians, Settler Guilt, and the Challenges of Decolonization and Resurgence in This Is an Honour Song: Twenty Years Since the Blockades .

Francis Dupuis-Dri teaches in the Political Science Department at UQAM in Montreal. His many publications include La peur du peuple: Agoraphobie et agoraphilie politiques, Whos Afraid of the Black Blocs? Anarchy in Action Around the World and La dmocratie au-del du libralisme: Perspectives critiques . Francis has been a commissioner on the peoples commission on political repression, and a member of the womens anti-violence research collective at the University of Ottawa. His research, activism and media commentaries are animated by radical protest movements in Qubec and globally.

Joel Harden teaches in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Joel is a grassroots activist, organizer and educator who has worked for the Canadian Labour Congress. He is the author of Quiet No More: New Political Activism in Canada and around the Globe .

Alex Khasnabish teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount St. Vincent University. Alex is a scholar-activist whose work focuses on social movements, the radical imagination and social change. He is the author of several books, including Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global and The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity (with Max Haiven).

Meg Luxton teaches gender, feminist and womens studies at York University. Meg has written on social reproduction, the family and neoliberalism. Her many works include Neoliberalism and Everyday Life (edited with Susan Braedley) and Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neoliberalism (edited with Kate Bezanson).

Terry Maley teaches critical and radical democratic theory and politics in the Political Science Department and in the Social and Political Thought Graduate Program at York University. He has written on participatory budgeting, radical democratic movements and neoliberalism. He has also been an activist who worked with the trade union movement on alternative budgets. His interest in Marcuses emancipatory thought is long-standing.

Patricia McDermott teaches socio-legal studies and gender and womens studies at York University. Her recent research has been on Supreme Court decisions in labour law, such as the Fraser and Saskatchewan Federation of Labour cases. Her play on the 1985 Eatons strike, Life on the Line , has been performed in multiple social justice, trade union and academic venues by Ryerson Universitys Act II theatre group. The play deals with the political economy of womens retail work, the role of gender in unions and consumerism.