Marcuse Notes That

question 23

Multiple Choice

Marcuse notes that:

• A) the total amount of repression in modern industrial societies is less than the amount of repression in less advanced societies.
• B) as our necessary repression has lessened, our surplus repression has increased.
• C) we suffer from much less surplus repression today than we did during the time of our grandparents.
• D) technology has, it turns out, failed to decrease our burden of necessary repression.
• E) it is impossible to decrease the total burden of repression.

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