Marcuse e o alerta à contrarrevolução preventiva

Abstract

Marcuse discussed the issue of counterrevolution in many texts. The aim of this article is to present his contribution to the elucidation of this problem and its actuality. For Marcuse, counterrevolution in advanced industrial capitalist society is not organized necessarily in opposition to an existent revolution, but in opposition to the possibility of any social change for more liberties and rights, social emancipation. Preemptive counterrevolution is a factor in the administration of late capitalism to the guarantee of its rule in face of cyclical economic crises. This way, sometimes this process is covert, sometimes it is open, with less or more aggravation of social violence. Even in the process of resurgence against the forces of liberation, Marcuse was looking for gaps for human emancipation. His proposals of Great Refusal and new sensibility are aimed at breaking the limits imposed by the existing domination, coming from the vital needs of the individuals themselves