Reconstructing Herbert Marcuse's Theory of Imperialism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis reconstructs Herbert Marcuse's writings on imperialism, which are scattered across his various works, lectures, and interviews.This analysis aims to present a consistent theory of imperialism based on Marcuse's variable and unsystematic writings on the subject.A key objective of this analysis is to demonstrate that Marcuse's understanding of imperialism drew heavily from the work of Vladimir Lenin, despite Marcuse's belief that the earliest Marxist theories of imperialism were no longer relevant in the post-WWII era.Chapter 1 reconstructs Marcuse's engagement with the 'classical' theories of imperialism, focusing on the notion of inter-imperialist rivalry.Chapter 2 engages with a discussion of the 'affluent society' in Marcuse's work, suggesting that Marcuse expands Lenin's notion of the labour aristocracy to include the entire organized labour force in the imperial metropole.This thesis aims to challenge and reinvigorate the secondary literature on the philosopher, which has until now omitted imperialism from the contemporary reception of Marcuse's work.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".