
Power-Without-Authority: Genesis, Nature and Mechanisms of Subversion
In his Eros and Civilization manifesto (1955), Herbert Marcuse called for a social revolution that would bring about what he called a non-repressive society: a society in which the individual would be freed from all institutional pressures, in which the satisfaction of his sexual drives would become socially desirable, and hedonistic gratification would turn into political values. Marcuse laid out the “liberation from repression” platform of the sexual revolution. He was its leading “intellectual agent.” Its operational agents enthusiastically set to work in the 1960s. From the onset, they had an internationalist perspective.